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Abeokuta Accident Kills Twins, Injures another Sibling
A bus has crushed two children of the same parents to death today in Ita Oshin area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
Eyewitnesses said the tragedy occurred while the children were on their way to school.
The bus is said to have lost control and ran over the pupils, killing two of them- a set of twins, and injuring the third, their elder brother according to reports via Punch Newspaper.
A mechanic, said he and other sympathisers took the corpses of the 8-year- old twins and their injured 14-year-old brother to the Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Aro.
“We immediately stopped a taxi and took the children to the hospital and the nurses tried their best.
“But they later confirmed that the girls were dead while their brother is responding to treatment,” he said.
Mr Adegoke Adetunji, the FRSC Sector Commander in Ogun, who confirmed the accident blamed the driver for dangerous driving, saying that he lost control and ran over the children.
“We got the report of the accident, which happened about 8am, at Ita Oshin area of Abeokuta.
“We gathered that the Toyota Picnic bus with registration number KTU 175 DZ was coming from Sango,” he said.
Adetunji also said that the driver of the vehicle, who tried to escape, had been arrested by the police and taken to Lafenwa police station in Abeokuta
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