Four killed, 16 injured as container truck overturns on bus in Lagos

Four radical person been killed and 16 others injured aft a instrumentality motortruck overturned onto an interstate Toyota Hiace autobus connected Berger Bridge, inward Eleko, on the Ibeju-Lekki Expressway successful Lagos State.

A connection by the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, said the fatal mishap occurred successful the aboriginal hours of Wednesday, October 28, 2026, erstwhile an articulated motortruck carrying a 20-foot instrumentality collided with the bus, with registration fig GME-589 ZU.

According to the agency, preliminary findings showed that the motortruck was travelling up the span astatine excessive velocity erstwhile it collided with the bus.

The motortruck operator reportedly mislaid power portion attempting to debar the collision, causing the motortruck to overturn onto the bus.

"The interaction was terrible and tragically resulted successful the nonaccomplishment of 4 (4) big males who were confirmed dormant astatine the scene, portion sixteen (16) different big males sustained varying degrees of injuries," the connection said.

LASEMA said its Beta Whales Team from Epe Base was instantly deployed aft the bureau received a distress telephone astir the crash.

The effect team, moving with the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, and the Nigeria Police Force, secured the scene, administered archetypal assistance to the injured victims and took them to Epe General Hospital for further aesculapian attention.

The bureau said a backstage crane had been secured to retrieve the overturned motortruck and instrumentality and let responders t...