Petrol truck crushes siblings sitting NECO, three others in Oyo - Punch Newspapers

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Tragedy struck in Ibadan on Monday as a loaded petrol tanker lost control and crushed five persons to death.

Two of the victims were said to be siblings who were sitting for the ongoing National Examination Council exam. It was gathered that the truck suffered break failure and the driver lost control of the vehicle before crushing passengers and the driver in a taxi to death.The accident happened at around Celica area on the New Ife-Ibadan Road, in the Egbeda Local Government Area of Oyo State.

One of the eyewitnesses, Kamaru Oyerinde, told our correspondent that the accident happened around 7am.

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