Pelican Stars football club, the Cross River State female football team, got involved in an accident on Tuesday evening.
The incident happened along the Murtala Mohammed Highway in Calabar, close to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Secretariat in Calabar.
The players were returning to their camp at 8-Miles, from the State Sports Stadium, when their bus crashed unto a truck conveying petroleum products out of the city.
Mr Ofu Aya, the State Commissioner for Youths and Sports, said the players were going back to the camp after a training session at the stadium when the crash occurred.
“I am not in Calabar now, but I understand some of the Pelican Stars players sustained various degrees of injuries and were taken to the General Hospital, Calabar, for treatment,” he added.
He said he hoped the players would recover to resume training and confirmed that apart from the injuries, no death was recorded in the incident.