At least two people lost their lives with six others sustaining injuries in a road accident that occurred along the Oyo-Ogbomoso road on Friday in Oyo State.
The accident involved a commercial Nissan car which ran into rocks placed as barricades by a construction company near Ipeba area on the axis.
The accident which occurred around 7am, claimed the lives of the driver and a female passenger whose identities have not been revealed.
Officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) from the Oolo Unit responded promptly to the emergency by evacuating the injured victims to Bowen University Teaching Hospital in Ogbomoso for medical attention.
Similarly, the remains of the deceased were deposited at the morgue of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Teaching Hospital in Ogbomoso.
A sympathizer at the scene of the accident sighted by our correspondent was heard in a video lamenting, that the occupants of the vehicles were students heading towards Ibadan, the state capital to write the ongoing Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) examination.
The unidentified man appealed to the management of JAMB to discontinue the practice of posting candidates outside of their localities for the examination.
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