Pandemonium as Truck Driver reportedly crushes Soldier to death
A logistics company’s bus had on Tuesday ran over and killed a soldier at Orile bus-stop, Iganmu area of Lagos State.
According to reports, the driver was reportedly fleeing from some extortionists who were demanding money from commercial bus drivers at the Orile end of the Badagry expressway.
The driver fled the accident scene, and recklessly drove away.
However, other soldiers who were at the scene of the incident pursued the fleeing truck.
It was reported that the soldiers eventually apprehended the truck at the Mile 2 bus stop.
Although the conductor managed to escape.
According to an eyewitness report, Shola James, a trader at Orile, narrated that the soldiers returned the truck and driver to Orile.
sha said: “The truck’s back tyre crushed the soldier’s head. I couldn’t bear to look at the body again.”
Another witness, a vulcanizer, reported that the soldier was on his motorcycle when the truck hit him, killing him instantly.
However, the Lagos State Police Spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, noted that neither the truck driver nor the truck was handed over to the police.
“After the incident, the DPO of Orile Police Station and his men visited the scene and saw the soldier’s body. The soldiers returned with the truck and driver but took them and the soldier’s body back to their barracks,” he said.
