Lagos — Seventeen persons were killed yesterday along the Lagos- Benin Expressway in a Haice bus with registration number XX433AA that plunged into Aden River near Okada town.

THISDAY learnt that the Benin-bound vehicle which loaded passengers at the Ojota motor park in Lagos had a head on collision with a truck belonging to a construction firm carrying out repairs on the road on the Benin-Ore Road.

The vehicle said to be carrying 20 persons made up of 17 male, one female and two children however plunged into the river during the accident, leaving 14 male, the only female and the two children dead while the three survivors were rushed to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH).

As at the time of filling this report, officials of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) were still busy trying to recover the bus from the river while canoes had earlier been used to fish out corpses from the river before being taken to the UBTH mortuary. Head of operations, Edo Sector of FRSC, confirmed the accident .