Planks fall from moving truck kill pedestrians in Ibadan
Our correspondent gathered that the incident which also.injured some occured at Omo Baba Bus Stop along the Sango-Eleyele Road area of the Oyo State capital.
The accident attracted a huge crowd of sympathisers but many of them were said to have attacked officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps who moved to the scene to rescue the injured victims. The FRSC team which was said to have been led by a female officer hurriedly fled to avoid been lynched by the angry mob.
The reason for the mob’s angry reaction could not be immediately ascertained as at the time of filing this report. While some said the driver of the truck mobilised the youth to attack the FRSC officials to prevent them from moving the truck to their office, others claimed relatives of the victims were behind the hostile behaviour towards the officials.
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