Eight people lost their lives in three separate road accidents that occurred between Tuesday and Wednesday on the Ilorin-Jebba road in Kwara State.

According to the Federal Road Safety Corps, the separate auto crashes, involved six petrol tankers and a car at Olooru-Kanmbi, in the Moro Local Government Area (LGA) of Kwara State and at the NNPC loading Depot in Oke-Oyi.

Eyewitnesses said one of the auto crashes happened when one of the tankers, heading to the NNPC depot at Oke-Oyi in the Ilorin East Local Government Area (LGA), got involved in a head-on collision with another tanker coming from the depot.

Flavision learnt that another tanker, loaded with diesel had a head-on coalition with yet another tanker coming from Jebba, also in the Moro Local Government Area (LGA). There was also a private car badly destroyed in the crashes by the tankers.

The the Sector Commander of the FRSC in Kwara State, Mr. Gbenga Owoade, said,

The accidents happened at different times along same route.

Owoade said,

Their remains have been deposited in the morgue of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, while two people, who survived the accident with critical injuries, are in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital.

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