Man Jumps To Is Death From Obalende Bridge In Lagos (Photo)

 

An unidentified Hausa Youth jumped over the Obalende

Bridge, Lagos, on Thursday at about 6:30pm and died

instantly, on sighting operatives of the Lagos State

Taskforce on Environmental Sanitation and Special

Offences, thinking that they were after him.

PM News reports that, Taskforce Officials stormed

Obalende to enforce the law on Environmental

Sanitation when the incident occurred.

A trader who identified himself simply as John said the

deceased from Adamawa State, North East Nigeria, was

watching the Taskforce Officials from atop the bridge as

they were dislodging street traders and illegal motorcycle

operators under the bridge beside the Oando Filling

Station when he suddenly sighted another Taskforce

Officials’ patrol van in the opposite direction. The trader

said, thinking that the Taskforce Officials would arrest

him, the deceased in a bid to escape jumped over the

bridge and landed on top of the iron beautification

barriers under the bridge. He sustained serious injuries

on his head and other parts of his body and died

instantly.

The trader stated that immediately the incident occurred

a mob attacked the Taskforce officials, vandalized their

vehicle and pursued them towards the 3rd Mainland

Bridge. The witness said the Taskforce Officials were able

to escape the irate mobs by shooting in the air to scare

them away.