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How suspected Covid-19 case being transported to Osun died during interrogation by police

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A patient suspected to be suffering from Covid-19 and being transported to Osun State from Oyo State died on Sunday when police intercepted the vehicle carrying him, it has been learnt.

It was gathered that officers of Osun State Police Command intercepted some persons transporting the supposed Covid-19 patient around 6:30 pm.

The vehicle, Mazda 323, with registration number KFS 409 EH, with which the patient was being transported was intercepted at Odo-Oba border point in Iwo Local Government Area of the state.

It was learnt that the driver of the car, in the company of others, was transporting the sick person from Ibadan into Osun before they were intercepted due to the ban on intra-transport movement into Osun by the state government.

While the police were interrogating the occupants of the car, the sick man, one Yusuf Ishola, was said to have coughed uncontrollably and then died. Consequently, the security operatives, along with local government officials at the checkpoint, asked the vehicle to return to Ibadan.

The driver of the car, identified as Ismaila Ademola, was said to turn the vehicle and pretended to be returning to Oyo only to get to a point and veered into a bush path and hide, waiting for the security operatives to leave the point so that he could continue with the journey into Osun.

They, however, did not succeed as the local government officials and the police combed the bush path, found them and led them back to Oyo boundary town.

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The team, it was learnt, made sure it handed over the vehicle and its occupants to ASP Adebayo Michael at Iyana Offa in Oyo State.

Osun State Police Public Relations Officer, Yemisi Opalola, who confirmed the report, explained that the car was transporting a corpse in company of others and was intercepted at the border checkpoint.

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