Six undergraduates of the Ekiti State University Ado Ekiti died in an auto crash which occurred in front of the institution yesterday.
A witness account
said that the victims, whose names could not be ascertained as at press
time, died on the spot after their vehicle had a head-on collision with a
mini bus popularly called 'akoto'.
The Police Public
Relations Officer in the Ekiti State Police Command, Mr. Alberto
Adeyemi, confirmed the development, adding that his men had evacuated
five dead bodies and deposited them in the morgue of the Ekiti State
University Teaching Hospital.
A witness told
journalists that the crash was caused by some heavily drunk boys. "They
drove carelessly and collided with the commercial bus," he said.
"Six people died on the spot. The men of the Federal Road Safety Corps have taken the corpse of the dead to the morgue."
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