An Apple fully laden 40-foot container truck with registration number XP 368 AKD has overturned and crashed upon a commercial tricycle KJA 364 QN conveying unsuspecting passengers along Ijora causeway, inward Ijora seven up.
Preliminary findings showed that the articulated vehicle, while attempting to maneuver under the Ijora Bridge, lost control and consequently capsized and fatally crashed on to a tricycle in its path and two passengers among them a serving Police Officer were killed instantly.
The remains of the deceased Police Officer were subsequently conveyed to a morgue at Yaba by security operatives, while grief-stricken relatives of the second victim, a female passenger, hastened to the scene to retrieve the remains of their loved one.
The rescue operation by LASTMA operatives in conjunction with allied emergency responders, two additional victims, including the tricycle operator, were extricated alive, though they sustained severe bilateral leg fractures.
The injured were expeditiously transported by the Lagos State Ambulance Service (LASAMBUS) to an Hospital in Ijora, for urgent medical intervention.
To avert a descent into chaos, combined detachments of security personnel drawn from Badia, Trinity, and Kirikiri Police Divisions established robust security cordons. Their decisive presence pacified irate onlookers, who had attempted to set the containerized truck ablaze, and safeguarded the emergency responders throughout the duration of the rescue operations.
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