An unidentified woman was on Sunday morning crushed to death by an articulated vehicle (trailer), in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital...
An unidentified woman was on Sunday morning crushed to death by an articulated vehicle , in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital.
According to an eyewitness, the trailer, said to be conveying tomato produce to the eastern part of the country crashed into the commercial tricycle boarded by the deceased who was believed to have been heading for church service. The trailer was said to have veered off its lane and rammed into the tricycle which was conveying three passengers, including the now dead woman.Trailer driver, three others drown in NigerThe accident which occurred close to the Confluence Beach Hotel, along the Ganaja road, soon turned more awry, as an angry mob gathered and set the trailer ablaze.
As at the time of filing this report, men of the Federal Roads Safety Corp, FRSC, were making frantic efforts to salvage the situation, while the remains of the deceased woman had been evacuated from the scene of the incident. Fear seems to have gripped other trailer drivers plying the road, as they parked their vehicles long away from the scene of the accident to observe the unfolding events, while other motorists were being diverted to one lane on the dual carriageway.
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