A 40ft container has reportedly fallen in Ijesha area of Lagos State and crushed two passersby to death.
The Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, made the disclosure in Lagos on Saturday.
He said that the LASEMA management received a distress call on its emergency toll-free line at about 9:44 pm. on Friday and activated a response team to the incident scene at Odo Olowu bus-stop at Ijesha.
On arrival at the scene, he said it was discovered that a truck loaded with an empty 40ft container, which had brake failure, had rammed into a stationary commercial truck and fell.
He said that the truck driver was rescued by the agency’s responders and taken to the nearest hospital by LASEMA Response Unit Ambulance Service.
Oke-Osanyintolu said that two adult females, however, died and their remains had been transported to the mortuary.
NewsCentral recalls that on August 1, 2020, a 20ft container fell off a moving truck at Ilasa, along the Oshodi-Apapa expressway, in Lagos, landed on a commuter bus and crushed eight people to death.
Among the deceased were two staff of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria [FAAN], Ajoku Chidinma, 27, a graduate of Babcock University, Ogun State and one Chima.
Others who escaped by jumping out of the bus sustained varying degrees of injuries
The mangled bodies of the victims were later removed after the container was lifted.