Female Driver Crushes 8 To Death In Lagos,

An unnamed woman in a Land Cruiser sport has crushed 8 pedestrians to death on Ilaje Road, in the Bariga area of Lagos State.

Among the dead were a pregnant woman, two siblings, an old woman and a man returning from his place of work.
The woman , said to be staying on Adebisi Street, had barely taken the wheels to drive the SUV home when the vehicle surged forward, crushing pedestrians and killing four of them on the spot.
A set of nine injured people were reportedly taken to the Gbagada General Hospital, among whom two died; while another set of seven casualties were later recovered. Two more corpses were found in the gutter on Sunday morning.
Enraged youths reportedly went to the scene and beat the woman up. She was about to be lynched when some policemen from the Bariga Police Division intervened.

She was to celebrate her birthday on Sunday and was going home to make preparations for the event before the incident.


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