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Seventy-five people died in two separate auto disasters in Lagos and Edo states on Thursday as the vehicles and their passengers plunged into dark, watery graves, ‘The Guardian’ of Lagos reported.
It said 60 people were aboard a Lagos-bound luxury bus from Nnewi, Anambra State, that skidded off the Lagos-Benin Expressway and plunged into the Ovia River, about 20 km from the Edo State capital, Benin.
Fifteen others died when a minibus veered off a road into the Lagos Lagoon. “The bus hung with the passengers on the railing for about ten minutes before it fell into the (lagoon),” one witness said. The dead included an ice-cream vendor who tried to rescue a child in the minibus. He perished when he lost his balance and fell into the river.
On Tuesday, 20 people died when a truck plunged into a river near Mangu, in Plateau State.
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