Multiple auto accident in Ilorin, Kwara state capital has claimed the lives of two junior secondary students, leaving at least five others with varying degrees of injuries.
The fatal accident occurred at Gaa Odota area opposite Alade fillig station junction along Ilorin-Ogbomoso highway on Wednesday.
Blueprint gathered that the deceased were standing by the road side before being crushed to death by one of the ill-fated vehicles.
The accident which occurred around 2pm according to eyewitness account, was caused by a commercial cab picking passengers in an unauthorised way.
Eyewitness account said that a tipper loaded with sand on high speed rammed into the commercial vehicle, adding that the cab also hit two other vehicles and a tricycle.
Kwara state Sector commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps Jonathan Owoade attributed the cause of the road crash to excessive speed.
Owoade said nine persons were involved in the accident, adding that relations of the deceased had claimed their corpses.
He said officers and men of FRSC rushed the injured to Geri-Alimi Hospital, a few metres away from the scene of the incident.
He noted that the accident involved four vehicles- one tipper, Mazda car, Nissan car (private) with red colour and commercial tricycle.
He gave the numbers of the Nissan car as AG20NBS, cab (Mazda) car as LEF16XA.
