Body of the street hawker crushed to death at Maryland, Lagos
About 20 BRT buses have been destroyed by suspected touts following an accident that claimed the life of a street hawker by one of the buses at Maryland area of Lagos.
According to a report by The Independent, officials of the Kick Against Indiscipline, (KAI), on operation clean-up Lagos streets of hawkers arrived Ikorodu road early and began to chase away hawkers who were selling their wares along the road.
One of the male hawkers ran into the BRT lane, near Idioroko bus-stop, Maryland, Lagos, in an attempt to escape from the wrath of the KAI official when he was crushed to death by an on-coming BRT bus.
This angered people who witnessed the scene as suspected area boys and touts used the opportunity to vandalize blue BRT busses plying the Ikorodu road, even as some BRT buses from various parts of Lagos had to disappear from the streets.
According to a resident of Palmgrove, several people have been critically injured following the protest, which caught the police unaware.
The police are now trying to put the situation under control.
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