The students, according to a source, were returning from a dinner party organised by some of the final-year students of the institution when their car collided head-on with the vehicle carrying the traders who were coming from Ora-Ekiti. While five women in the commercial vehicle died on the spot, the driver and eight othrs from the other vehicle are critically injured and receiving treatment at the emergency unit of the state university’s teaching hospital.Safe for the timely intervention of the villagers and some policemen attached to the Iworoko Police Division, the students would have been trapped in their car. The villagers had to use cutlasses and axes to cut through and get the students out.The public relations officer of the university’s Student Union Government, Priscilla Afolabi, who confirmed the accident, said “They are our colleagues coming from a dinner. None of the eight (five females and three males) died. They were coming from a popular hotel close to the university, the venue of the dinner, when the incident happened.”The Ekiti State Command Police Public Relations Officer, Victor Babayemi who also confirmed the incident said the five persons who lost their lives in the accident were women traders who were coming from Ora-Ekiti to Ado-Ekiti.Babayemi also disclosed that their bodies had been deposited at the state morgue while nine others who are students of the Ekiti State University and the driver of the commercial vehicle were receiving treatment at the state’s teaching hospital.
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