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GOV OSHIOMHOLE ESCAPES DEATH AS THREE DIE IN CAR CRASH

From vanguard comes a report that three journalists, Olatunji Jacob and George Okosun, both of the Independent Television, and Fidelis Ohani, a camera man of the African Independent Television (AIT), attached to Edo State Government House,

Saturday, lost their lives while Governor Adams Oshiomhole escaped death after a tipper rammed into the governor's convoy along Warrake Road in Etsako West Local Government Area of the state.



Six other journalists in the press bus and security operatives attached to the governor sustained various degrees of injuries while a photo journalist of the state-owned Observer Newspaper, Mr David Acha, and a driver, are in coma. Unconfirmed reports said the Chief Detail to the Governor was among those wounded.



Sunday Vanguard learnt that the tragic incident happened when Oshiomhole was on his way to Auchi after he received some decampees from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to his Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) at Afuze in Owan East Local Government Area.



The papers report that a visibly shocked Oshiomhole was speechless when he was contacted.



It was learnt that Jacob was killed on the spot while the two others died after they were rushed to a private hospital in Auchi.



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