Relatives search for corpses after 12 students of OOU die in auto accident

A curious twist has crept into the death of dozen of students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University(OOU), in an expressway accident on Friday as grieving parents, relatives and friends are yet to locate their remains, 19 hours after the incident.

Many of them who had besieged the morgue of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital(OOUTH), Sagamu, to see the bodies of the victims said to have been deposited there were advised to search elswwhere.

Head of the Teaching hospital’s Morbid Anatomy and Histopathology Department, Dr Deji Agboola, told The Nation that he had checked twice and found that corpses of students said to have died in an accident were not kept at OOUTH.

Agboola, an associate professor who also doubles as the Chairman of the OOU branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU), said grieving relatives had been coming since Friday following wrong media report that the dead were deposited at the OOUTH.

He said the wrong information is already creating problem as it tends to leave the impression that they are hidding something from the relatives or friends of the victims.

Agboola added that he, the Head of the Students Affairs and Chief Security Officer of the institution have, Saturday morning, began to comb private morgues in Sagamu in search of the remains of the student – victims of the accident.

As at 8:20am Saturday morning, he said they have now found out that the victims were deposited at the Fakoya Hospital, Sagamu, but requires the help of the hospital management to ascertain the identities of those kept in the private hospital’s morgue.

Students of OOU were crushed to death and others gravely injured on Friday at Sagamu corridor of Lagoss – Ore expressway when an unlatched 20-feet container from a moving truck came off and fell on the roof of a psssenger bus conveying them.

The weighty container press – pinned the bus to the ground killing the passengers in the accident which involved a truck marked (LAGOS) BDG 779 XE and a Toyota Haiace passenger bus bearing (Lagos) XV 311 MUS.
It was learnt that the OOU students were travelling to Lagos state for the weekend when they met their untimely death.