No fewer than seven people on Sunday evening died in a ghastly auto crash along Osogbo/Gbongan road while eleven others sustained varying degrees of injury during the accident.
An eyewitness account revealed that two siblings of the same mother returning to school were among those that lost their lives.
It was gathered that an 18-seater passenger bus around 5:00pm lost control after a tyre burst and collided with a Toyota Sienna space bus.
It was also gathered that the passenger bus which had about 16 passengers on board immediately burst into flames after the accident and nobody could tell the cause of the fire.
The eyewitness recounted: “We manage to remove some of the passengers in the commercial bus but about 6 people were trapped in the vehicle and got burnt. In the other private vehicle involved, one person died on the spot and the other occupant was brought out of the wreckage alive.
“I can’t confirm what later happened. But those that were injured were taken to Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, OAUTH, Ife for treatment.
“From what we were told when the corpses were being evacuated, two children of the same mother died in the commercial vehicle. The mother was travelling in another vehicle. She eventually met their dead bodies when she arrived the scene of the crash.”
Meanwhile, the Osun Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Mr Umar Ibrahim, confirmed that seven people died in the accident.
According to him, the cause of the accident could not be immediately established, saying an investigation is being conducted to unravel the cause.
Source: Nation
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