Container crushes police officer, another to death in Lagos

By Esther Onyegbula

A constabulary serviceman and a pistillate rider were, yesterday crushed to decease successful Lagos, erstwhile a 40-foot container-laden motortruck overturned connected a commercialized tricycle astatine Ijora Causeway, inward Ijora 7Up.

The incident, which occurred beneath the Ijora Bridge, progressive a motortruck with registration fig XP 368 AKD and a tricycle (popularly called Keke Napep) marked KJA 364 QN.

Confirming the accident, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, said preliminary findings showed that the articulated motortruck mislaid power portion attempting a unsafe manoeuvre, fell, and landed connected the tricycle conveying 4 passengers.

Two victims, a serving constabulary serviceman and a pistillate commuter, died instantly, portion the tricycle relation and different rider sustained injuries connected some legs.

The Director of Public Affairs and Enlightenment, LASTMA, Adebayo Taofiq, successful a statement, yesterday, said exigency responders from the agency, assisted by the Lagos State Ambulance Service, LASAMBUS, constabulary operatives and others, pulled retired the survivors and rushed them to Jimsan Hospital, Gasikiya, Ijora.

The remains of the constabulary serviceman were taken to the Yaba mortuary, portion relatives of the pistillate unfortunate retrieved her assemblage astatine the scene.

Taofiq added that information operatives from Badia, Trinity and Kirikiri divisions prevented aggravated residents from mounting the motortruck ablaze during the rescue operation.

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