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Wednesday, 25 December 2013

Xmas Tragedy: Ten killed in Lagos accident

About 10 persons were feared Wednesday after a container fell on a commercial bus along the Alaba Suru area of Lagos State.

Eyewitnesses accounts said the accident occurred about 9am.

The accident was caused by a mad man sleeping on the road, who a commercial bus was trying to avoid.
A mother, her four children, an old woman and four others were said to have been killed in the accident, with many other people injured.

One of the victims, a woman survived with two shattered legs.

An eyewitness said; ” the accident was caused by mad man sleeping on the road. The commercial bus was trying to avoid crushing the mad man while the container was trying to avoid crushing the commercial bus.

“It all happened this morning at about 9am. There was a commercial bus going to Okoko Iyanaoba, calling for passengers and there was a trailer laden with a container filled with vehicle engines.

“There was a mad man lying on the road and a commercial bus was coming from Orile axis. The bus swerved to the left to avoid the mad man on the road and the container swerved also to the left to avoid the commercial bus.

“The container was about to scale the culvert, but the container fell to the right, and fell on the bus picking passengers. Those sitting on the ground died. A woman with four children were killed. An old woman and four others died. A woman who survived had her two legs cut off in the accident.”

It was gathered that LASEM bus rushed to the scene to take the wounded to hospital and the dead to the hospital.”

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