LIVES LOST AT A POLICE CHECK POINT IN OSUN

More than 25 people lost their lives yesterday,around 11:50 a.m in a fatal accident, after a truck rammed into 4 vehicles at a police checkpoint along Erin Ijesha-Akure road, Osun State.


A survivor, Prince Adegbite said that, 3 private cars and an 18-seater commercial bus were crushed by the beer truck, with about 25 people dying instantly.

Prince Adegbite claimed that a traffic congestion was formed as a result of the force being use by the Nigerian policemen to collect money at the checkpoint, making it possible for the truck to crush the vehicles, after its driver lost control.

He added that what annoyed him most was that all the policemen ran away, immediately the accident happened, and it was the civil defence, FRSC officials and some soldiers who came to help evacuate the victims.