A pregnant woman, her
four children and a commercial motorcyclist were crushed by a Hilux pick-up van
along old Oleh-Ozoro Road, Oleh, Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta
State.
The woman, who sold electrical appliances, sources said, had boarded a motorcycle
with the children after close of sales for the day, when the incident occurred.
A source, who sought
anonymity, said the driver of the pick-up was going home with N200,000, being
part payment of proceeds from the sale of his family’s piece of land, when he
rammed into the victims.
The source said
deliberations on how the part payment of the land, sold for N400,000, should be
shared had resulted in a dispute among members of the family, during which one
of them snatched the money and drove off in the Hilux pick-up. The source said
three of the family members went after him in a Toyota Camry car. It was in the
course of the chase that he lost control and hit the motorcycle, which was
headed in the same direction.
He said the victims died on the spot and the
vehicle dragged them along the road for a while before stopping. According to
him, the car somersaulted several times, but no casualty was recorded. He added
that the bodies of the deceased had been deposited in the mortuary of a nearby
hospital, while the Hilux driver is still at large.
-Vanguard
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