Melancholy report reaching us has it that scores of students of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) Ago – Iwoye who were travelling to Lagos state for the weekend were on Friday, June 26, 2015 crush to death when a container fell on a passenger bus conveying them.
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The incident also left a number of students seriously injured.
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Our reporter gathered that the unlatched 20-feet container from a moving truck came off when the driver was driving àgainst traffic and in a bid to avoid an obstruction at the Sagamu stretch of the Lagos/Benin expressway, the load tipped and dropped lethally atop of the bus' roof.
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The weighty container press – pinned the bus to the ground in the accident, which occurred few meters away from the gate of a plastic manufacturing company situating near the Ilisha Remo junction.
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The vehicles were a truck marked (LAGOS) BDG 779 XE and a Toyota Haiace passenger bus bearing (Lagos) XV 311 MUS.
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It was learnt that the OOU students were travelling to Lagos state for the weekend when they met their untimely death.