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| Shogunle area, Gbagyo |
A 27-year-old woman, Lucy Gbagyo, has died after jumping from a speeding commercial bus in the Shogunle area of Lagos State.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the
Benue State indigene was on her way to see her fiance, Philip Nguhwa, on
Sunday evening for preparations for their wedding when the incident
happened.
Our correspondent gathered that Gbagyo
and Nguhwa were to have their wedding on February 27, 2015, having
courted for four years.
It was learnt that on the fateful day,
the deceased had boarded a vehicle from the Toll Gate end of the
Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway en route to Ilori Street in the Shogunle area
where Nguhwa lives.
The bus driver was said to have sped past her destination and she began to shout for him to stop.
The driver allegedly ignored her and continued with the journey.
When her cries fell on deaf ears, she reportedly forced the door open and jumped out.
Her fiance, Nguhwa, a trader, said the
driver immediately stopped the vehicle as other passengers and
sympathisers in the area rushed to save the victim.
He
said, “One of them picked her phone and checked the last dialled
number. He saw my number and called me. He said I should rush down to
the bus stop.
“When I got there, I called her name and
she opened her eyes faintly and shut them again. We all carried her into
the bus and rushed her to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital.
“We had not gone too far when she died in the vehicle. When we got to the hospital, she was confirmed dead on arrival.”
It was learnt that the
victim, who was into the business of buying clothes in Lagos and selling
them in Benue, had lost her father in a motor accident in January.
Our correspondent learnt that the police arrested both the driver and the conductor of the vehicle.
But a relative, Felix Agu, told our correspondent the family was not interested in pursuing the case.
Agu said, “We have written a letter to
withdraw the matter. All we want is for her corpse to be released to us
for burial. The family stays in Benue and everybody wants her buried in
her home town.”
What a tragedy
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