Two people including a yet-to-be-identified military officer and a sugarcane vendor were on Sunday crushed to death by a truck in Jebba in Moro local government area of Kwara State.
The incident, Punch Metro gathered, happened at one of the checkpoints in the town.
According to a resident, the vehicle veered off the road before hitting the victims.
He said, “The incident occurred at a checkpoint in the town when the truck veered off the road and hit the victims.”
The sector commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Frederick Ogidan, confirmed the accident on Sunday.
According to him, “It was a lone accident involving a DAF truck which lost control and hit the victims.
He said, “Four people were affected, they were all males but two of them died while the other two didn’t sustain any injury.”
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