Double Tragedy As Ambulance Conveying Corpse For Burial Crashes In Edo

It was a double tragedy for a corpse being conveyed to unknown destination on Tuesday morning, as the ambulance conveying it crashed into a stationary truck.

The incident allegedly occurred at about 8.30 am, along Benin-Lagos highway, close to Okada Junction, Ovia north-east local government area of Edo state.

It was gathered that some of mourners in the motorcade for the burial, sustained varying degrees of injuries in the crash.

An eye witness who craved anonymity, told our correspondent that the crash resulted in traffic built-up, causing Lagos-bound commuters and other road users stranded for hours.

The source added that officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), promptly evacuated the victims and took them to an unknown hospital for medical attention.

As at the time of filing this report, effort to get reaction of the FRSC operatives yielded no result.