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According to The PUNCH, a yet-to-be-identified commercial motorcycle passenger was, early Saturday morning, killed by an articulated truck in Warri, Delta State.
The incident reportedly occurred at about 7 am when the tipper ran over the middle-aged female passenger on a commercial motorcycle at Mofor Junction, along Udu road in the metropolis.
The PUNCH Metro gathered that the woman was returning from a night vigil when the truck crashed on the commercial motorcycle she was riding on.
The woman died on the spot, eyewitnesses say, while the Hausa rider escaped unharmed.
Meanwhile, the woman’s body has been evacuated and deposited in a nearby morgue.
The Acting Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe, could not be reached for confirmation as of the time of filing this report, as repeated calls to his line rang out.