BREAKING NEWS: Five Confirmed Dead In Auto Crash On Third Mainland Bridge In Lagos

A terrible engine mischance on Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria has guaranteed five lives, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, has affirmed.

The mishap included three vehicles-a LAGBUS, Hilux truck having a place with a vigilante bunch and a Rover Jeep.

The disaster happened around 6:10pm on Sunday internal Iyana Oworo by UNILAG waterfront, says Michael Akindele, LASEMA's General Manager.

Salvage organizations like the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA; Federal Road Safety Corp, FRSC; Nigerian police and the Rapid Response Squad, RRS were on ground to safeguard casualties.

"Five people have been affirmed dead. They incorporate three female grown-up and two youngsters. Five people were likewise harmed and were taken by the Lagos State Ambulance Service, LASAMBUS to the Truma Center," Akindele affirmed.

As indicated by him, appropriate examination would be done to decide the reason for the mischance by the pertinent government organizations.

The LASEMA manager exhorted drivers to avert over speeding furthermore hold fast to all movement standards and direction to maintain a strategic distance from occurrence, for example, this.

He said the organization's Emergency Response Team recuperated the accidented vehicles, while the dead bodies had been taken by the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit, SEHMU to the Mainland Hospital Mortuary.

As of late on Otedola Bridge, internal Berger, a loathsome engine mishap killed 11 travelers as they were cooked in the resultant inferno which immersed the vehicle.