More than 15 students of Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, were believed to have died on Friday afternoon in a road mishap in the state.
It was gathered that the students were on their way to Lagos when a heavy duty vehicle carrying a container crushed their bus.
The truck was said to have driven against traffic and collided with the commuter, killing all the occupants, including the driver.
According to information gathered by our correspondent, the 18-seater bus left Ago-Iwoye on Friday afternoon, carrying the students to Lagos, until the unfortunate incident reportedly happened on the popular Lagos/Benin Expressway.
An eyewitness was quoted in several reports to have said “I was coming from Sagamu side and saw the accident. I had to hurriedly park my car, run to the scene to see if the passengers could be rescued but unfortunately all the occupants were dead including the driver.”
“The bus was facing Lagos, but I don’t know where it was coming from. The driver of the truck carrying an empty container was coming from Sagamu axis but was driving against traffic and that resulted in the collision, which eventually claimed the lives of the innocent people,” the eyewitness, Tommy Hamzat, the Commander of the TRACE, Ijebu Command, told newsmen.
Meanwhile, corpses of the victims have since been deposited at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, OOUTH, Sagamu.
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