Three ladies aged between 25 and 30 years died Thursday afternoon after the hummer bus in which they were travelling was knocked off the Lagos-Benin highway by an operational vehicle driven by operatives of the Nigerian Customs Service.
The commuter bus with registeration number EDO AKA 35 LG
carrying second hand clothes also known as okirika, summersaulted during
a hot chase by Customs officials from the Federal Operations Unit, Zone
A, Ikeja from one of their checkpoints in Ijebu Ode.
The driver of the bus allegedly refused to stop when flagged down at their checkpoint which resulted in the tragic chase.
•One of the victims knocked down by customs
According to the driver who was in severe pains, having
lost one of his legs in the accident, when the Customs pick up van could
not overtake him, it hit his bus at the rear which caused the vehicle
to summersault several times into the bush at a place indigenes called
J3.
On sensing that the bus had crashed into the bush,
the Customs officials beat a hasty retreat to avoid being attacked by
members of the public that immediately rushed to the scene of the
accident.
Three women in the bus died on the spot and the other injured victims were brought out of the bus and were writhing in pains.
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