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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Nine persons have been confirmed dead in an accident at Ekpon Junction on Agbor-Ewohimi Road, Igueben Local Government Area of Edo State.<\/p>\n

The Sector Commander of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Edo Command, Henry Benemesia, who confirmed the incident to newsmen said the victims were on their way to a wedding ceremony before the accident took place.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe deceaseds\u2019 were in a bus from Benin to Ewatto in Edo for the wedding of their yet-to-be-ascertained friend\/relative.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, their vehicle had a collision with an articulated vehicle loaded with bags of cement heading to the South-east.<\/p>\n

\u201cFive persons died on the spot while others passed away on the way to the hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe corpses of the victims have been deposited at the morgue of an undisclosed hospital in Edo,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He, however, said that one of the survivors, a 15-year-old boy was receiving treatment at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the health facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. Nine persons have been confirmed dead in an accident at Ekpon Junction on Agbor-Ewohimi Road, Igueben Local Government Area of Edo State. The Sector Commander of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Edo Command, Henry Benemesia, who confirmed the incident to newsmen said the victims were on their way to a wedding ceremony […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":41772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,28,26],"tags":[1570,2140,3963,443,254,3964],"class_list":["post-41773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-agbor-ewohimi","tag-edo","tag-nigeria","tag-nine"],"yoast_head":"\nNine die in auto crush along Agbor-Ewohimi road in Edo - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nine persons have been confirmed dead in an accident at Ekpon Junction on Agbor-Ewohimi Road, Igueben Local Government A ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nine-die-in-auto-crush-along-agbor-ewohimi-road-in-edo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nine die in auto crush along Agbor-Ewohimi road in Edo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nine persons have been confirmed dead in an accident at Ekpon Junction on Agbor-Ewohimi Road, Igueben Local Government A ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nine-die-in-auto-crush-along-agbor-ewohimi-road-in-edo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-26T16:39:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/04\/img-6086ebd6c9e72.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nine-die-in-auto-crush-along-agbor-ewohimi-road-in-edo#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nine-die-in-auto-crush-along-agbor-ewohimi-road-in-edo\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nine die in auto crush along Agbor-Ewohimi road in Edo\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-26T16:39:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nine-die-in-auto-crush-along-agbor-ewohimi-road-in-edo\"},\"wordCount\":168,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nine-die-in-auto-crush-along-agbor-ewohimi-road-in-edo#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/04\/img-6086ebd6c9e72.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Agbor-Ewohimi\",\"Edo\",\"Nigeria\",\"Nine\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nine-die-in-auto-crush-along-agbor-ewohimi-road-in-edo#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nine-die-in-auto-crush-along-agbor-ewohimi-road-in-edo\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nine-die-in-auto-crush-along-agbor-ewohimi-road-in-edo\",\"name\":\"Nine die in auto crush along Agbor-Ewohimi road in Edo - 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