Lagos school bus tumbles, injures children

The accident occurred in Surulere area of the state.

A News Agency of Nigeria correspondent, who witnessed the accident, reports that the bus with registration number KTU-465DN hit a median barrier and pulled off a concrete holding a street light, before summersaulting.

Sympathisers rushed to the scene and took the injured children and a caregiver on board, to nearby Hospital. The driver of the bus, who also sustained injuries, fled the scene, apparently for fear of a mob attack.A doctor who was on duty, Sanusi Olatunbosun, told NAN, “Seven people were in the school bus, three had serious injuries while four had minor injuries.”

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