Three persons have been confirmed dead in Ondo State following alleged exposure to toxic waste.
It was gathered that the casualties, Akinmusire Monday, 35, Samuel Louis, 45, and Ododolewa Adebowale, 19 had gone to work at the forest reserve situated in Akinfosile/Omotosho area of the local government. Following the intervention of the community leader, Olufara of Akinfosile, Oba Olamide Ayodele, a search party was put together which led to the discovery of the missing persons with their dead bodies covered with black substance suspected to be toxic waste.When youths in the community realised that they were killed by toxic waste generated by the Chinese company, which is into cassava to ethanol processing, they protested to the company to alert them about the incident.