Six final-year nursing students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) have died in a tragic road accident while travelling to sit for their final examinations.
The students all 500-level candidates in the Open and Distance Learning Bachelor of Nursing Science programme were heading to Ogbomoso, Oyo State, for what was meant to be the concluding stage of their academic journey. Among them was a student reported to be heavily pregnant at the time of the crash, deepening the sorrow surrounding the incident.
Their bodies have since been deposited in a mortuary, pending autopsy and further directives from authorities.
