Death as truck falls on passenger bus at Sango

A truck conveying granite fell on a bus around the Sango tollgate, along the Lagos-Abeokuta highway, Ogun State, at about5 pm on Sunday..

The commercial bus driver, while the truck driver sustained no injury.

The FRSC spokesperson in Ogun, Florence Okpe, said “the suspected cause of the crash was a bad portion of the road.”

According to Okpe, the rescue operations took the concerted efforts of men of the FRSC rescue team and the MTD section of the Nigeria Police Force, Sango.

She explained that a crane was hired to lift the truck off the  bus.

“The dead body was taken to the General Hospital, Ifo,” she added.