About six persons have lost their lives in a fatal road accident that happened today at Ganmo along the Ilorin/Omu-Aran Highway of Kwara State.
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Peoplesmind gathered that the multiple road crash involved an ash-color commercial Suzuki bus with registration number BDJ-134XB and a blue color DAF with plate number ABC435XN which was loaded with onions coming from Sokoto State.
The Kwara State commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Ade Ogidan, confirmed the incident and said that nine other victims sustained various degrees of injury.
Ade Odigan, added that “Yes, the accident involved 15 people, all males, with six killed and nine others sustaining head injuries and fractures.
He disclosed that “the victims have been taken to the University Ilorin Teaching Hospital, (UITH) Ilorin for treatment while the corpses have been deposited at the morgue of the hospital,”.
Some eyewitnesses attributed the cause of the accident to overspeeding.
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