Tragedy struck today in the city of Ado Ekiti as four people were feared dead and three others sustained severe injuries in an accident involving a truck and a taxi cab in Similoluwa area of the state capital.
The accident threw passers-by and families of the victims into wailing and mourning.
When Radio Nigeria got to the scene of the accident, sympathizers, motorists and Commercial motorcyclists were seen rushing the victims to the hospital for medical attention while corpses of the dead have been deposited at the morgue of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital.
Many of the sympathizers blamed the truck driver for driving recklessly, while others believed that he was drunk.
A Lady who spoke under the condition of anonymity said that only God saved them from the same truck in Dallimore Street before its eventual accident in Similoluwa.
Some also claimed that the truck had break failure but Radio Nigeria observed that drivers of the two vehicles were feared dead.
The two vehicles were badly damaged.
By: Oriola Afolabi
