Angry Mob Destroys LAGBUS for Killing 5-year-old Schoolgirl in Lagos (Photos)

 

There was pandemonium at the Otto bus stop, in the Oyingbo area of Lagos State after an angry mob vandalized a mass transit bus belonging to the LAGBUS Assets Management Limited for allegedly crushing a five-year-old girl to death, and injuring another pedestrian, Punch Metro reports.

 

The girl who was returning home from school with her mother was crushed to death as she was walking on the pedestrian side of the Oyingbo-Otto Road. She was said to have been rushed to the hospital where she died as a result of her injuries. The 5-year-old’s legs were said to have been smashed, while another male pedestrian, said to be an Okada (motorcycle) rider, was injured. The incident happened around 12pm on Friday. 

 

It was revealed that the bus was attacked by angry mob who were bitter for what had happened. This resulted in the smashing of the bus front glass, side mirrors and other body parts of the ill-fated bus. If not for the intervention of policemen from Denton division, the LAGBUS would have been burnt down.

 

 

A source at the scene revealed exactly what had happened: “It was at about 12.30pm on Friday. The woman was the mother of the girl, and they were returning from the school. The LAGBUS hit them at the junction and also hit an Okada rider. The police got information that there was commotion in the area, and that some youths might resort to violence, so we moved in and the bus was towed away. The driver is at large.”

 

Another bus driver, who gave his name only as Wasiu, and claimed to be an eyewitness gave his own account of the story saying: “The girl was about five years old. She was being taken home by her mother. We do not know her name. The bus hit them at the pedestrian side. The girl was badly injured. The driver of the LAGBUS initially came down and helped in rushing the girl to a hospital. It was in that process that some youths vandalized the bus. It was when the driver learnt that the girl had died that he fled. The other man was bleeding all over. He would have died too, but for the first aid given by the people staying around the scene.”