Despite lockdown, cement truck crushes taxi, kills 6

Six persons have lost their lives after a Dangote Cement truck crushed six people in a taxi along the Epe Expressway in Lagos State late Tuesday.

This was inspite of the lockdown order, which was handed down by the federal government to citizens, except those on essential duties to stay at home.

Confirming the accident, the Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said the cement truck fell on a taxi with number plate SMK-312ES.

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He mentioned that six out of the seven people in the taxi were dead and had been taken to the mortuary.

“Investigations revealed that a total of seven people were in the crushed car with six of them having lost their lives on or shortly after impact. Efforts are ongoing by the response team to extricate the single adult man who is alive but remains trapped beneath the Silo truck”, he said.

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