Metro
Bus crushes 8-yr-old twins to death in Abeokuta
Tragedy struck in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, when a commercial bus crushed two children of the same parents to death on their way to school in the Ita Oshin area of the town.
According to an eye witness account, the accident, occurred at about 8am while the children were on their way to school.
The bus was said to have lost control and ran over the students, killing two of the children who were twins and injuring a third, an elder brother.
An eye-witness said sympathisers took the corpses of the 8-year- old twins and their injured 14-year-old brother to the Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Aro.
Read also: Army kills escaping Boko Haram insurgents
The Ogun State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Adegoke Adetunji, who confirmed the accident, blamed the driver for dangerous driving, saying that he lost control and ran over the children.
“We gathered that the Toyota Picnic bus with registration number KTU 175 DZ was coming from Sango,” he said.
He also revealed that the driver, who tried to escape, has been arrested by the police and taken to Lafenwa police station in Abeokuta.
RipplesNigeria… without borders, without fears
Join the conversation
Support Ripples Nigeria, hold up solutions journalism
Balanced, fearless journalism driven by data comes at huge financial costs.
As a media platform, we hold leadership accountable and will not trade the right to press freedom and free speech for a piece of cake.
If you like what we do, and are ready to uphold solutions journalism, kindly donate to the Ripples Nigeria cause.
Your support would help to ensure that citizens and institutions continue to have free access to credible and reliable information for societal development.
INVESTIGATION: In Kwara, multimillion-naira milk processing plant is abandoned, converted to a chicken outlet
After the government spent millions of naira to establish a milk processing plant in Kwara State that would provided jobs...
SPECIAL REPORT: For Sokoto communities, promise of healthcare is akin to death sentence
In this story, ABDULRASHEED HAMMAD delves into the dire realities of Primary Health Care services in Sokoto State, shedding light...
ICYMI…SPECIAL REPORT: NNPCL hides behind PIA to frustrate disclosure, accountability
Nigeria’s major oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), in what appears to be a common practice of disregard...
INVESTIGATION: Multi-million naira Ekiti resort center remains uncompleted a decade after
The multimillion-naira project, expected to comprise recreational buildings, now consists of cassava farmland, a bush used for excretion, and a...
SPECIAL REPORT: Torturous experiences of students with disabilities in Oyo tertiary institutions
For students with disabilities in Oyo state-owned tertiary institutions, learning is a torturous and distressing experience, considering the building structures...