Families besiege mortuary in search of 12 dead Ogun varsity students

It was a hectic task for workers of Olabisi Onabanjo Teaching Hospital, Sagamu to control the crowd as families and friends of some students of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, who lost their lives on the Sagamu-Benin Expressway, on Friday, besieged the hospital in search of them. No fewer than 12 persons lost their lives when a container from a truck fell on a 14-seater commercial bus they were travelling in from Ago- Iwoye to Lagos State. Sunday Vanguard gathered that some relatives were told by the hospital authorities that the bodies were not deposited at their morgue as reported by some media outfits. A senior staff of the hospital, who craved for anonymity, noted that grieving family members of the victims were directed to comb private morgues within the town, saying information at his disposal had it that some bodies of victims were deposited at a private hospital mortuary. It was further gathered that the university’s Head of Students Affairs,Professor Lekan Arikewuyo, and the Chief Security Officer, Mr. Rasheed Adekunle, were, early yesterday morning, in search of private morgues were the bodies of the victims of the accident were deposited.