Four students of Idito High School, Erunmu Ibadan, were on Monday crushed to death by an articulated vehicle.
The incident, which led to immediate riot along Olodo-Iwo-Road, paralysed vehicular movement on the axis.
Students of the school and youths in the area got enraged by the sad incident and blocked the road to expressed their grievances about the unfortunate incident.
AN eyewitness said that the three students were being transported on a motorcycle popularly called ‘okada’ when the driver of the articulate vehicle in an attempt to avoid hitting an animal by the roadside rammed into them, crushing all the three students to death.
The deceased students and the okada rider were initially rescued by residents of the area, however, they gave up before they could get medical attention.
The sad incident consequently led to agitation among the youths of the area who decried incessant loss of lives on the highway and set the truck ablaze in rage.
In a bid to restore calmness to the area, officers of the Oyo State Police Command, Operation Burst and Amotekun have however been drafted to the scene to forestall further breakdown of law and order in the area.