Three Die, Four Injured In Lagos Accident
A fatal accident occured in Lagos Thursday afternoon at Agunlejika Bus Stop along Oshodi-Apapa expressway when a truck fell on a bus which led to the death of three people.
Men of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) and Police officers raised to the scene to rescue those trapped in the bus but at the end of the exerice, two people were pulled out dead while five others were injured.
The accident which caused long traffic inward Cele Bus-Stop; two dead bodies were recovered while five others seriously injured were rushed to the General Hospital, Isolo.
An eyewitness, John Ifeanyi, at the scene revealed that the driver of the commercial Danfo bus coming from Mile 2 towards Oshodi was trying to avoid a Jeep and in the process veered into the centre of the road where a truck rammed into it.
But another eyewitness said that the white commercial Danfo bus was driving against traffic inward Mile Two when it collided with the truck.
While officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) and other responders that arrived the scene were evacuating the dead bodies at about 5; 15pm, news came in that one of those rushed to the hospital had died.
A man with his family members also came around to seek the permission of the LASEMA officials to search the bus as he said his wife’s, one of those rushed to the hospital, has her particulars in the bus.
With the permission granted, after searching the bus for some minutes, he came out with the wife’s diary containing her Automated Teller Card, ATM.
Though he refused to say anything, but was heard thanking God for saving his wife’s life.
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