Black Saturday As Trailer Rams Into Market In Ondo Community, Ten Dead, Still Counting |The Source

By Ayodele Oni

The restive university community of Akungba Akiko in Ondo state is in a mourning mood.

As the residents of the community were preparing to enter the new month with pomp, the unusual happened, which left them mourning.

A trailer loaded with rice descending from Ikare end of the hilly road lost control and rammed into traders at a market at Ibaka Area of  Akungba Akoko, late Saturday.

It was a gory site as the market was littered with broken human ribs, arms and skulls as well as bags of rice and the reminants of the truck.

Eyewitnesses explained that the trailer loaded with bags of rice might have lost control due to brake failure, and eventually swerved off road and into the market where people were shopping, preparatory for Sunday.

“The accident occured at about 7.30pm, when the trailer loaded with bags of rice rammed into the stalls into the market. As I am talking to you, not less than 20 persons must have died as over 10 dead bodies trapped under the trailer have been removed and many are still trapped.”

The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), of the state police command,  Mr Tee-Leo Ikoro,  who confirmed the crash said about eight/persons  have been confirmed dead.

“As we speak now eight people have been confirmed dead in the accident and we can still have more because we still have many people trapped under the trailer,” Ikoro said.