Truck send six to grave in Lagos

Six persons were send to grave on Tuesday when a truck fell on a taxi along the Epe Expressway in Lagos State.

The taxi was carry seven persons to a destination in the state amid lockdown in the state, along Epe Long Bridge.


According to the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) the accident involved the Dangote truck and a commercial taxi carry seven people.

Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, the Director General of LASEMA, told Newsmen, that the accident happened at 7 p.m. on Tuesday

'A Dangote Cement silo truck with unknown registration number fell on a fully loaded commercial taxi OPEL car with registration number SMK-312ES,' he said.

'Investigations revealed that a total of 7 people were in the crushed car with 6 of them having lost their lives on or shortly after impact while efforts are ongoing by the response team to extricate the single adult man who is alive but remains trapped beneath the silo truck.'