Gunmen shoot bus passenger dead in Lagos

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A yet-to-be-identified male adult has been killed while in a commercial bus along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the incident happened on Wednesday, July 30.

It was gathered that the deceased had boarded the bus from the Agbara area and was heading to Okoafo.

A resident close to where the incident happened, who identified himself simply as Fatai, told our correspondent on Wednesday that the bus had stopped to drop a passenger off the area when some unidentified men on a motorcycle moved close to the vehicle and shot the passenger.

Fatai said the deceased died on the spot, thereby throwing the area into confusion.

“The incident happened in the afternoon. We just saw some people gathered around a bus along the ECOWAS Road, and when I moved closer, I saw someone sitting lifeless in the bus. Other passengers on the bus told us that the man had boarded at Agbara and was heading to Okoafo.

“So, the moment the bus stopped at the Winnys bus-stop to drop off one of the passengers, two men on a motorcycle parked by the bus and shot the deceased passenger at close range. They fled the spot on their motorcycle after shooting the man. There is every possibility that they might have trailed him to that spot. The whole area was thrown into confusion when we got to the spot.” Punch