No fewer than five persons lost their lives while many sustained injuries in a fatal road accident which occurred at Ikaram Akoko in Akoko North-West Local Government Area of Ondo State on Sunday.
According to him, while five passengers died, 11 sustained injuries and two were unhurt.
“The victims were taken to State Specialist Hospital, Ikare Akoko for medical attention and the corpses were taken to same hospital morgue while the crashed vehicle was taken over by men of Nigeria Police Force, Oke- Agbe Division,” the FRSC boss said, Reacting to the development, the monarch of Ikaram Akoko, Oba Andrew Momodu, said the community had approached Federal Ministry of Works and the Federal Road Maintenance Agency to erect speed breakers around the junction where the accident occurred, adding that road crashes were common in the area.All rights reserved.
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