By Richard Akintade, Osogbo
About eleven persons were reportedly killed while twenty others were injured in a fatal auto accident along Gbangan-Ibadan road in Osun state on Friday night.
The accident, which occurred around 9:05pm opposite Ayedaade local government Secretariat in the state involved two commercial buses, a white Mazda E2000 with registration number KJA392YA and a Toyota Hiace bus marked GWL427YM which had a head-on collision.
According to the spokesperson of the state Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Mrs Agnes Ogungbemi, 10 dead passengers were taken to the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, OAUTH, morgue while the other body was taken away by the family.
She added that 16 of the 22 injured victims were taken to Ariremako hospital in Gbongan while the remaining six were taken to central hospital in Osogbo, whose ambulance was at the scene for rescue operation.
“16 injured victims were taken to Ariremako hospital Gbongan, 6 other injured victims were taken by Central Hospital, Osogbo Ambulance to their hospital after the medical doctor of Ariremako hospital called for their assistance having been rejected at Divine mercy hospital, Gbongan.
“The Ife FRSC Sector Rescue Team who joined in the rescue operations after a call was put to them said, 10 corpses were taken to OAUTH Ile Ife morgue, while the remaining one corpse was taken by the relatives who are from Hausa community in Lagos” she added.
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