Four persons on Sunday died and five others critically injured in a lone ghastly motor accident on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos.
A Toyota Hiace bus marked FST 241 YC, in which the victims were travelling reportedly crashed around 5.50 am at the Adekunle inter-change end of the bridge inward Iyana-Oworo.
The accident was said to have somersaulted several times after a tyre burst.
The bus conveying about twenty persons (9 men and 11 women) was on too speed before the crash, according to an eye witness account.
Three persons wers said to have died on the spot while the fourth gave up the ghost on reaching the hospital for medical attention.
The Lagos State Sector Commander, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Olusegun Ogungbemide, confirmed the accident.
He said men of the FRSC, the Nigeria Police Force, the Lagos State Transport Management Authority (LASTMA) and the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), were at the scene to rescue the victims.
He disclosed that bodies of the deceased have been deposited in the mortuary of the General Hospital, Marina,
The FRSC boss, who disclosed the fourth person died at the General Hospital, Marina, where the injured victims were rushed for treatment, said bodies of the deceased have been deposited in the mortuary of the same hospital.
