Six students of Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, have died in an auto crash involving a car and a commercial bus on Monday.
The accident happened at about 7.30pm in front of the institution’s main gate.
According to an eyewitness, the six persons died from impact of an head-on collision of the two vehicles.
Another eyewitness told said that the students were in a Lexus saloon car and were coming from Ado Ekiti town to the university when the accident occurred.
The identities of the students could not be confirmed as at press time .
But the Ekiti Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Alberto Adeyemi, who confirmed the development, said his men had recorded five deaths.
An eyewitness said the driver of the car, suspected to be under the influence of alcohol with his friends, rammed into the mini bus conveying the students from the campus.
He added that they must have been heavily drunk and drove carelessly and collided with the commercial bus. Six people died on the spot while one of them is on danger list.
As at the time of this report, the Federal Road Safety Corps have taken the corpses to the morgue.
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