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<\/p>\nAn eyewitness, Mr Sesan Ajila, told DAILY POST on Monday that the none availability of emergency rescue agents was responsible for the casualty.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe accident happened around 7pm on Sunday as the driver was trying to avoid pot holes around the area.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, there was no emergency rescue team on ground to save their lives, until some individuals around the area took it upon themselves to rescue them.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut they were not rescued until 11pm on Sunday, and were eventually brought out dead before they were taken to the hospital,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, Folashade Odoro when contacted, confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n
She, however, averred that she could not ascertain the number of casualties in the accident.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the owner of the private hospital where the victims were taken, Dr. Rasak Akindele confirmed that the victims were brought dead to his clinic around 11pm.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was told the accident happened around 7pm but the rescue was not timely because I was about entering my house when I was called around 11pm to come and attend to the victims.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got to the hospital around 11pm or thereabouts and when I examined the bodies, they were all lifeless\u201d, Akindele said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No fewer than three people lost their lives on Sunday night in Ede, Osun State, as a vehicle, conveying food items plunged into a river at the popular Oke-gada area of the town. An eyewitness, Mr Sesan Ajila, told DAILY POST on Monday that the none availability of emergency rescue agents was responsible for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/152856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}