4 dead as taskforce, tanker drivers, touts clash in Lagos

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By Christopher Oji

Four persons have been killed this morning when officials of the Lagos Task-force, tanker drivers and touts clashed at Mile 2, Lagos.
Passengers were stranded as commercial drivers have refused to operate on the route.
A witness John Maduka told Daily Sun that because of the skemishes , security agencies have barricaded the Mile 2 Oshodi bridge preventing vehicular movements.
Although the actual cause of the fight is- yet -to -be ascertained, but at the time of filling this report, Maduka claimed that four persons were dead from gun shots.
According to him,”Mile 2 is on fire, both the taskforce, tanker drivers and touts are fighting seriously. I don’t know what caused the fight, but I am just hiding at Fagbems Filling station at Mile 2 and watching.
“I am going to work ,but I am stranded as they barricade the whole of Mile 2 that nobody will pass”, he said.

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