According to Solomon Aghure, sector commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in the state, the deceased persons were travelling in an ambulance when the accident occurred.
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No fewer than 15 persons on Friday lost their lives in two separate road accidents in Edo State, officials have said.
One of the accidents involved a Mercedes Benz which rammed into six children who were playing football in a compound in Arue, Uromi in Esan North-East Local Government Area, while trying to dodge a pothole.
The other accident, which claimed nine lives, involved four vehicles in the Agbede axis of the Benin-Auchi Road.
Henry Benamaisia, Edo State Sector Commander of the
Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), said the accident which claimed nine lives happened at about 11a.m. in Agbede, in Etsako West LGA of the state.