The Director General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, disclosed on Saturday that an empty 40ft container has claimed two lives in an accident at Ijesha area of Lagos.
He said that the LASEMA management received a distress call on its emergency toll free line at about 9:44p.m. on Friday and activated a response team to the incident scene at Odo Olowu bus-stop at Ijesha.
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On arrival at the scene, he Oke-Osanyintolu said it was discovered that a truck loaded with an empty 40ft container, which had brake failure, rammed into a stationary commercial truck and fell.
He said that the truck driver was rescued by the agency’s responders and taken to the nearest hospital by LASEMA Response Unit Ambulance Service.
Oke-Osanyintolu said that two adult females, however, died and their remains had been taken to the mortuary.
