Tragedy: Tanker Crushes Corps Member To Death

A tanker conveying petrol on Saturday evening crushed to death, a member of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Mr Muibi Abdulrasa, in Ilesha-Baruba town of Baruten local government area of Kwara State. According to a witness, the deceased and a friend, also a corps member, were being conveyed on a commercial motorcycle when the incident occurred. The tanker was said to be coming from Saki in Oyo State to dispense petrol at a filling station while the two corps members were coming from a market in Ilesha-Baruba. The witness said the commercial motorcyclist tried to overtake the vehicle but collided with an on-coming wheel-barrow being pushed by a man by the side of the road and the motorcyclist and the other corps member fell into a nearby gutter while the deceased fell under the moving vehicle and was crushed to death at the spot. The others suffered minor injuries. The deceased, a 2013 Batch ‘C’ corps member was said to be an indigene of Kwara and a graduate of Accounting from the Kwara State Polytechnic. Public relations officer of the state police command, Mr. Ajayi Okansanmi who confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said the driver of the vehicle had been arrested and was being interrogated.