An unidentified woman has met a cruel death after she unknowingly stepped near a working Lister generator only to be crushed to death.
It was confusion and panic at Jimoh Street in Egbeda area of Lagos was on Thursday evening when a generating set killed a woman (name unknown).
An eyewitness identified as Taiwo Oladeji revealed that the flywheel of the Lister generator got entangled with the woman's dress, then lifted her up and rolled her down, leading to her death.
“The woman is a supplier who came to supply goods to people in the neighbourhood. I don’t know what made her go near the generating set. She was close to the Lister forgetting that her dress was close to the flywheel. The flywheel held her dress, rolled her up and killed her instantly.
“That is the car she came with to supply goods to her customer. We just discovered that the generating set stopped working suddenly. It was when people came back that we saw that the generating set had killed the woman. How it cut her head into two and broke her skull is still a mystery,” he said.
However, another person who claimed to have witnessed everything that happened said it was not the generator that killed her, but a machine used for grinding food items.
“I wonder why they are saying it is a Lister generating set that killed her. It is not true,” the witness said.
Police are still investigating the incident.