By Attah Ede
At least six persons, including a pregnant woman and five undergraduate nursing students, have lost their lives in a fatal road crash at the Kwara end of the Ilorin–Ogbomoso highway.
The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Oyo State Command, Mrs Rosemary Alo, confirmed this ugly development on Tuesday in Ibadan.
She said the accident took place in the Ote area at the Kwara end of the road.
According to her, some of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene, while others reportedly died while receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital.
Sources said the affected students were undergraduates of a higher institution in Oyo State. The victims, all 500-level students, were enrolled in an Open and Distance Learning Bachelor of Nursing Science programme.
They were said to be travelling for their second semester examinations when the crash occurred.
“Our men are working in collaboration with the Kwara state Command to restore normalcy on the highway”, she noted, promising to make more details available later.
