Six students of the Quantity and
Surveying Department of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo state have been confirmed
dead from a ghastly motor accident on Monday, February 8, 2016.
Daily
Sun reports that the students were on their way from Oyo to Ibadan, the state
capital when the ugly incident occurred.
It
was gathered that thirteen other occupants of the 18-seater bus sustained
varying degrees of injuries in the automobile crash which occurred at
Motunde, on Ibadan-Oyo expressway at about 6.00pm.
While
the deceased’s corpses were deposited at the morgue in Adeoye State Hospital,
Yemetu in Ibadan, the injured victims of the crash were taken to St Patrick
Private Hospital and General Hospital in Oyo.
A
tyre burst during the vehicles’s movement and somersaulted several times before
hitting the road divider and six students died on the spot.
Adekunle
Ajisebutu, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state confirmed that
six persons died while 13 others were injured.
Also
confirming the incident was the Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety
Commission (FRSC) in Oyo state, Yusuf Salami, said the details of the accident
were still being compiled.
EmoticonEmoticon