A mother and her two-year-old daughter were on Thursday, crushed to death by a bus which rammed into shops in the Ikotun area of Lagos.
Reports said another trader was hurt when the bus ploughed into some businesses on the side of the road next to Toluwalase Hall on Governor’s Road in Ikotun.
A witness identified only as Tayo claimed that the bus driver fled after being nearly lynched by onlookers who gathered at the scene of the collision.
“It is a Hummer Bus, it probably lost its brake. It rammed into the shops and cleared about five shops. A woman and her daughter were crushed and confirmed dead when rushed to the hospital,” Tayo said.
Sources said the woman was killed while trying to save her child.
“She was rushing to go and save her daughter but unfortunately, the bus crushed the two of them. The driver ran away when people descended on him,” a source said.
It was gathered that the bus stuck around a gutter beside the road, crossing the gutter.
The Divisional Police Officer at Ikotun, Adagba Johnson, confirmed the incident.
