One feared dead, others injured as fuel laden truck rams into vehicle on Otedola bridge

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A tanker loaded with petrol on Thursday rammed into a bus and a car on the Otedola Bridge, Lagos State, resulting in loss of a life.

The Director -General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said that two people were severely injured in the accident which occurred at 8:30a.m.

Oke-Osanyintolu said that the agency’s officials had, however, removed the vehicles from the road to ease traffic.
According to him, a female adult lost her life to the accident, while a male adult and a child got injured.
He said that the corpse of a female adult had been taken to a mortuary, while the injured were being treated.