{"id":161613,"date":"2019-10-19T19:43:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T18:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=161613"},"modified":"2019-10-19T19:44:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T18:44:28","slug":"breaking-seven-dead-in-edo-governors-convoy-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=161613","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Seven dead in Edo Governor’s convoy crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seven persons including five adults and two children have died in a ghastly auto accident involving the advance team of Edo state Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki on Benin-Auchi Expressway.<\/p>\n

Some other persons including one of the Governor\u2019s driver were also injured in the accident.<\/p>\n

Eyewitness account said the accident occurred at Ehor, the administrative headquarters of Uhunmwode Local Government Area, when a Toyota Hilux van on the Governor\u2019s advance team had a head-on collision with a passenger Audi car.<\/p>\n

The advance team were said to be on their way to Ambrose Ali University, AAU, at Ekpoma for the convocation ceremony of the university.<\/p>\n

Three other survivors were said to have been rushed to the Central Hospital in Benin City for medical attention.<\/p>\n

It was learnt that a good Samaritan rushed the survivors and the dead to the First SAVAN Centre at the hospital.<\/p>\n

At the Central Hospital, a source confirmed that accident victims were brought in but declined to give details.<\/p>\n

As of the time of filing this report, arrangements were on to evacuate the driver of the Hilux van to a private hospital for adequate medical care.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seven persons including five adults and two children have died in a ghastly auto accident involving the advance team of Edo state Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki on Benin-Auchi Expressway. Some other persons including one of the Governor\u2019s driver were also injured in the accident. Eyewitness account said the accident occurred at Ehor, the administrative headquarters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161350,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[5734,530,533],"class_list":["post-161613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-adams-oshimhole","tag-edo","tag-godwin-obaseki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161613","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=161613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}