10 year-old pupil crushed to death by truck in Lagos

Tragedy struck on the Ireshe Road, Ikorodu area of Lagos State when a 10-year-old pupil of Anglican Primary School, Ikorodu, Toheeb Abdullahi, was crushed to death by a truck.
PUNCH Metro gathered that the victim’s skull was smashed by the rear tire of the truck carrying crates of Pepsi soft drinks.
An eyewitness, Suraju Sumonu, said the police had seized his motorcycle on the fateful Tuesday afternoon when he saw the incident.
He said, “The kids were coming back from school when the rough edge of the Pepsi truck hooked the boy’s shirt.
“There was traffic on the road, so the driver of the truck did not know what had happened. He drove forward without knowing the boy had fallen on the ground and his head close to the tyre.
“The truck broke the boy’s skull. It was such a gory sight that people had to quickly cover the dead body with cardboards.”
Our correspondent learnt that policemen attached to the Igbogbo division arrived at the scene and arrested the driver of the truck.
The truck was also taken into the station, which was not far from the scene of the incident.
When PUNCH Metro visited the residence of the boy’s parents on Gbadamoshi Street in the Itupate community, he met the victim’s parents with a group of sympathisers.

Toheeb’s mother, Taiwo, was observing her prayers when our correspondent entered the house.
She later explained that her son, who was in primary five, died due to the careless attitude of the school driver.
She said, “That day, he went to centre, where they usually teach them technical skills. The place is at Itaelewa.
“The usual thing was that the driver that the school employed would carry them from the centre back to the school, from where they would find their way back to their parents’ home.
PUNCH