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A tanker driver on
Tuesday morning escaped being lynched by a mob at the New road area of the
Sapele, Delta State after a man boarding an Okada was crushed
to death by the tanker.
The incident occurred at the New road by Owumi road area of
the town at about 5.40 am when the tanker and the Okada, the man boarded
crashed with the man’s body mangled between the trailer tires. Eyewitnesses’
account told Vanguard that the tanker had gone to supply fuel to a Filling
station in the vicinity and was maneuvering it’s way to New road probably
heading out of town while the man on a commercial motorcycle was heading to
Owumi road when the accident occurred.
“I was standing at the other side of the road when the Okada
passed while the Tanker was trying to maneuver its way from New road to Owumi
road and the next thing we heard was someone screaming and all that I saw was a
man under the Truck rear tire, fortunately, the Okada man escaped unhurt” a
woman who simply identified herself as Angela said.
The incident almost sparked violence in the
area as co-riders and sympathisers who dashed to the scene, accused the Truck
driver of recklessness. A man was said to have put a call to the Sapele Area
Command and the New Sapele Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Abubakar Akande, who
in turn directed a team of combine Policemen from the Area command and the
Sapele Police Station to put the situation under control. When Vanguard visited
the scene at about 7.30 am, vehicular and commercial activities were still
paused for a while until normalcy was returned to the area as the Police were
still trying to return normalcy.
Source: Paul Olayemi – Sapele (vanguard)
