From News Editor
It was a tensed and mournful atmosphere at Ilupeju and Itapa Ekiti, Oye Local Government today Friday, as a truck crushed three persons to death.
Two of the victims were said to be siblings.
According to eyewitness report, the three victims were on a commercial motorcycle coming from Itapa Ekiti before they were ran over by the truck.
Confirming the incident, Olusola Joseph, Sector Commander, FRSC, Ekiti State Sector said “It is true. It involves a bike conveying three persons and a truck. It claimed the lives of the three persons in the bike.
“The bike and the vehicle were coming from opposite directions when the accident occured.
I learnt the truck was descending while the bike was ascending.
“We have not really been able to establish how it really happened.
As I speak, men of the corps are on the way to hospital in Ado Ekiti to deposit the dead bodies in the morgue.”