At least 15 people have lost their lives, and several others have been injured in a tragic accident involving a trailer and a vehicle near the Oko Olowo axis of the Ilorin-Jebba Expressway in Kwara State.

Eyewitnesses reported that the accident occurred on Wednesday at 5:35 pm when a trailer with registration number AYE 218 XC had a head-on collision with a vehicle with registration number TTN 556 XA.

It was gathered that one of the vehicles was ferrying cows and passengers from Ilorin, Kwara State capital to Ogbomoso, Oyo State, while the trailer was said to be travelling from Lagos to Kano.

Emergency responders and police officers from the ‘G’ Division Police Command, Oloje, were said to have arrived at the scene on time to take control of the situation, while the injured victims were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.