A commercial motorcyclist and his passenger died in a fatal accident along Iworoko Road in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Friday.
They were crushed to death by a commercial vehicle being pursued by some task force men who wanted to collect money from the driver.
The impact of the accident led to the collapse of the small bridge where the incident happened. Some passersby wept profusely when the mangled bodies of the victims were brought out.
An eyewitness, Jimoh Alimi said: “In the process, the driver of the vehicle suddenly ran into a commercial motorbike and crushed it into the bridge on the highway.
“The bridge collapsed when the fast moving vehicle crashed the motorbike into it and two people on the bike were confirmed dead when the police and Federal Road Safety Corps officials got there.”
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