Seven traders, including a teenager on Tuesday morning, lost their lives in a fatal auto crash around Oko, a border town between Osun and Oyo state.

The traders were said to have left Osogbo for Barutin about four days ago and the driver was said to have fallen asleep during the return trip.

The mangled corpses of the victims were taken to a Catholic Hospital located at Jaleyemi area, Osogbo, Osun State.

Relations and other traders who were travelling along with them, besieged the medical facility, wailing over the sad development.

It was gathered that the driver of the vehicle in which they were travelling lost control of the vehicle.

Details of the incident have remained sketchy.

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