Bowling for Humans!

Sharon · #**101** ● 06-19-2013, 04:50 PM

Old incident from 2009 in Nigeria. Couldn't locate it but I may have over-looked it. Original article shortened.

Robbers kill 20 on Sagamu/Benin Road, 2/8/09.

20 passengers travelling on the Sagamu-Ore- Benin Expressway lost their lives when a truck crushed them to death during a robbery operation.

The fatal accident was said to have happened around the Babcock University, Ilisan junction and Odogbolu areas of the highway.

The luxury bus was on a night journey to the Eastern part of Nigeria and ran into a gang of armed robbers on the expressway.

The robbers were reported to have blocked the highway with wood and ordered the passengers to disembark from the bus.

The passengers were ordered to lie down on the highway before a trailer, said to be at top speed, ran over the victims and killed them all.

Confirming the incident, the Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Commission, (FRSC), Ogun State, said that he could not ascertain the cause of the accident as at the time of filing this report.

He said that 13 men and seven women lost their lives immediately while two men were reported to have been seriously injured.

He said,” This incident is unfortunate. What we observed is that there was no dent on the luxury bus, which indicated that the vehicles did not run into each other. The most likely cause of the accident could be because of the activities of armed robbers. We have said it over and over again that people should avoid night journeys.”

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