Three arrested for lynching suspected robbers in Lagos

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested three suspects for allegedly taking part in the lynching of five suspected armed robbers in Mushin Area of the state on Saturday. Police Public Relations Officer of the command, Ngozi Braide, said on Tuesday that the suspects were arrested as part of the ongoing investigation into the incident.

She  said, “A full  investigation has commenced into the incident, I cannot give details about the involvement of the arrested suspects for now.

“We have also invited the community leaders of the area where the incident took place. The police will surely get to the root of the matter.”

Braide, however, declined to give the names of the arrested men.

Six year old boy, others die in fire explosion.

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A six-year-old boy was on Sunday burnt to death in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, while trying to jump down from a bus, which caught fire on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway.

The deceased was among the 18 passengers in a bus coming from Lagos, which ran into a tanker that  earlier had an accident.

An witness said that the articulated  vehicle  was found around 7.30 a.m to have fallen, with its side on the median of the expressway.

According to him,‘’I found out that the fuel it was conveying had  spilled.  About 30 minutes later, I saw some people  trying to scoop the fuel, but some firefighters later arrived and chased the people away. They sprayed all the surroundings of the tanker to prevent explosion. Later, they left.

‘’Around 9.30 a.m, I heard a loud sound which was followed by a thick smoke from the articulated vehicle. I also saw some people  scampering out of another bus a few metres away.

‘’The bus was coming from Lagos and because  traffic was already building, the driver tried overtaking other vehicles when the bus’ exhaust pipe scratched an iron by the side of the road and sparked, igniting fire.’’

He added that, it was the fire that trailed the fuel, which made the fallen tanker to explode afterwards.

Fatal accident on Benin-Lagos Expressway

An early morning auto accident on the Benin-Lagos Expressway yesterday claimed the lives of 13 passengers.

Three others were injured.

The victims included 16 male passengers who left Lagos for  Onitsha, Anambra State in a Toyota Hiace commercial bus marked YB 610 EPE with the inscription ‘Anambra Mass Transit’. 

According to Mr. Bisi Kazeem, Deputy Corps Public Education official of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) at the Toll Gate near Ovia North East council area of Edo State, the ill-fated bus had a collision with  an IVECO truck with registration number AAA 962 XB.

Kazeem attributed the cause of the carnage to violation of road traffic by one of the vehicles at a village near Ohusu, Edo State.

Accident at Dopemu, Lagos.

An accident occurred on the Dopemu bridge inward Agege axis this morning at about 7:15am. Details was still sketch at the point of this report but from i gathered from eye witness, the vehicle was said to have loss control while trying to avoid a ditch on the bridge before falling off the bridge on to the Taxi Park Structure just beside the bridge.

The Nigerian police and LASTMA officials were seen trying to control the situation and the injured victims have be taken to a nearby hospital.