No fewer than seven persons, including five adults and two children, were in the early hours of Saturday killed in a ghastly motor accident involving the advance team of Governor Godwin Obaseki on Benin-Auchi expressway.
According to The NEXT EDITION sources, several other persons, including one of the governor’s driver were injured in the crash.
Eyewitness account said the accident occurred at Ehorin village, along the Benin Ekpoma highway in Uhunmwode Local Government area of the state, when a Toyota Hilux van of the governor’s advanced team, had a head-on collision with an on-coming Audi car.
The advance team was said to be on their way to Ambrose Ali University (AAU), Ekpoma, for the institution’s convocation.
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Three other survivors were said to have been rushed to the Central Hospital, Benin City, for medical attention.
It was gathered that a good Samaritan rushed the survivors and the dead to the First SAVAN Centre at the Central Hospital in Benin.
At the Central Hospital, a source confirmed that the accident victims were brought in, but declined to give details.
At press time on Saturday evening, arrangements were on to transfer the driver of the Hilux van to a private hospital for adequate medical care.
The State Commissioner of Police, Danmallam Mohammed, who confirmed the incident, described it as “very unfortunate.”
