Truck conveying APC Senator’s rice kills 20 people in Ekiti

Truck conveying APC Senator’s rice kills 20 people in Ekiti

Tragedy struck in Iworoko town, few minutes drive from Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Saturday night after an articulated vehicle rammed into a

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Tragedy struck in Iworoko town, few minutes drive from Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Saturday night after an articulated vehicle rammed into a market located at the centre of the town. It was gathered that the truck, which was loaded with branded bags of rice of the Senator Representing Ondo Central Senatorial District, Tayo Alasoadura (APC), killed over 20 people after a suspected break failure.

According to eyewitnesses, the truck with  full load of customized bags of rice with the picture, name and logo of the senator who is re-contesting his seat in the National Assembly on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Tayo Alasoadura had crushed two vehicles before it rammed into some shops Sympathisers, fire fighters, officers of road safety and the police engaged in the rescue operations which lasted till midnight. Bodies of the victims have been deposited in the mortuary.