11 Die, 22 Injured As Passenger Buses Collide In Osun

Eleven persons have been confirmed dead while 22 were injured in an autocrash that occured at Gbongan along the Ibadan-Ife Expressway.

It was gathered that two commercial buses involved in the crash had a head-on-collission around 9pm on Friday in front of Ayedaade Local Government Secretariat in Gbogan town.

The two buses, a Mazda with registration number KJA 392 YA and a black Toyota Hiace bus marked rGWL 427 YM, were said to be carrying 33 passengers including the drivers.

Some residents living around the area told journalists on Saturday that they were surprised that some occupants of the vehicles survived the accident which they described as being very terrible.

One of them said the injured victims were promptly rescued and taken to hospital by officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps and Osun Ambulance Services

The Public Relations Officer of the Osun State Command, Mrs Agnes Ogungbemi, said the accident killed 11 persons while 22 others were injured.

She said speed limit violation was the possible cause of the crash.

She said, “Sixteen injured victims were taken to Ariremako Hospital in Gbongan, six injured victims were taken to Central Hospital, Osogbo.

“Ife rescue team who joined us in the rescue operations after a call was put to them, took 10 corpses to the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile Ife morgue, The remaining one corpse was taken by the relatives who are from Hausa community in Lagos.”

Ogungbemi noted that seven phones, some luggage and some amount of money were recovered from the scene