Nigeria: Ogun Boils As Truck Crushes Couple, Five Others

23 March 2013

Tragedy Struck On Thursday Night When a Cement — laden truck belonging to Dangote factory crushed seven people including a couple to death at Ibese in Yewa North local government area of Ogun  state.

Saturday Vanguard  gathered that the accident involved three trucks of the cement company. The incident however  forced the Commissioner of Police, Ikemefuna Okoye  to relocate to the area in a bid to douse the tension in the area following a pandemonium that broke out  leading to the death of a trailer-motor boy and burning of Dangote three trucks.

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