Posted by Amarachi on Fri 22nd Mar, 2024 - tori.ng
The victims were returning to Aba from the school’s induction of medical students on Thursday, March 21, 2024, when the incident happened.
Three Medicine and Surgery students of Abia State University, Uturu, were reportedly killed while two others sustained varying injuries in an auto crash at Okigwe axis of the Enugu-Umuahia Expressway.
According to Punch, the victims were returning to Aba from the school’s induction of medical students on Thursday, March 21, 2024, when the incident happened.
"Three students have been confirmed dead, while two others are injured and are battling for their lives now in the hospital while one miraculously survived,” a source said.
Another source said the accident happened when the driver of the vehicle the students were travelling in lost control and somersaulted.
Confirming the incident, the Corps Commander of the FRSC, Abia State, Fredrick Ogiden said his men went there shortly after the accident, stating that the vehicle was an ash-coloured private Toyota Camry.
Ogiden said that the incident happened at the Okigwe axis of the Enugu-Umuahia Expressway.
A viral video shows men of the Federal Road Safety Corps at the scene of the accident while another.
One of the students has been identified as Favour Okpanku, a 500 Level Medical and Surgery student.