Nine persons have been killed in a road accident on the Iseyin-Ibadan Road, Oyo State.
15 persons were also injured in the accident, while a male child was rescued from the ruin without any injury.
The incident, reported on Saturday, involved two buses.
An eyewitness said that the buses collided at a sharp bend around the Muslim Burial Ground at the outskirt of Iseyin town, en-route Ibadan.
The residents of Iseyin said some of the injured victims suffered broken limbs, while there were reports that some of the victims were members of the same church, who were returning from a ceremony in Saki.
Some citizen were said to have visited the mortuary to identify bodies, while others were at the hospital where the victims were admitted to identify their relatives.
The National President, Iseyin Development Union, Alhaji Bayo Raji, in a statement on Sunday, said many lives had been lost in accidents on the newly reconstructed Moniya-Iseyin Road.
He begged the state governor to call the road contractor to put speed humps at “critical points along the road.”
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