At least ten people to include six female and four male have been confirmed in a collision between a transport bus and fuel tanker yesterday, July 23.
Along Ife-Ibadan expressway, a transport bus coming from Ore, Ondo state was reported to have rammed into a petrol tanker attempting to negotiate a U-Turn which sparked up fire accident resuming into the death toll in the afternoon of that day.
The Police Public Relations Officer in Osun, DSP Folashade Odoro, confirmed the incident in a statement in Osogbo.
Odoro also said that two males sustained serious injuries, adding that they were receiving treatment at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife.
Odoro said the accident involved a Toyota Hiace bus marked MUS 702 XZ and a Iveco Tanker with number plate YNF 327 XA.
The corpses have been taken to the morgue of OAUTHC for autopsy.