Seven persons died in a fatal auto crash along the Osogbo-Ikirun road on Saturday evening.

The accident involved a blue Sharon space bus carrying eight passengers and a truck belonging to a construction company.

The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Peter Oke, confirmed that only one person survived the accident.

It was learnt that five males and two females, who were in the space bus, died, while a female passenger who survived was responding to treatment at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Teaching Hospital, Osogbo.

The corpses of those that died in the accident had been deposited at the morgue of the hospital, while the truck was taken to the State Traffic Office at the Dugbe Divisional police headquarters in Osogbo.

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