A fatal accident involving students of the Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku, has claimed two lives of final year Higher National Diploma (HND) students of the institution.

Two other students of the institution were said to have sustained life threatening injuries in the auto crash.

It was gathered that accident occurred along the school road at the front of the popular African house in Ogwashi-Uku at about 9pm on Friday.

One of the deceased, identified as Monday Odogbor, died on the spot owing to the fatal nature of the accident while his friend was said to have died at the hospital on Saturday morning.

Odogbor was a final year student of the accountancy department of the institution according to the source.

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Sources at the polytechnic community said the deceased alongside his friends were driving a Toyota Camry car before the vehicle rammed into a palm tree.

“They were overtaking another moving vehicle when their car lost control and veered off the road and ran into a palm tree in front of African house. One of them identified as Monday died on spot but the second person died at the hospital this morning Saturday) the sources said.

“They are four occupants in the vehicle, the remaining two students are still battling for survival at the hospital” the source said.

The Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Delta State, Mr Ahmed Ocheja, as at the time of this report, said

“Some of these accident that happened in the middle of the night, they don’t bother to tell us, that’s one of the the problem were are having but I will confirm from our men in Ogwashi-Uku.

But a management staff of the institution confirmed the development and said the institution would make an official statement on the incident through the office of the student’s affair.