Trailer Crushes Man Engaged In Brawl

Tragedy struck in Benin City, Edo State, when a middle-aged male hawker simply identified as Sunday was crushed to death by a fast-moving trailer along Ikpoba Hill Expressway, while he was about to engage in a brawl with another hawker.According to an eyewitness,
trouble started when the deceased and some other hawkers got into an argument which resulted to a fight between them. Attempts by passers-by to separate the fighting duo were unsuccessful, as they ignored all pleas to call a truce.Late Sunday was said to have been overpowered by his colleague who pushed him onto the express way, without seeing the heavy-duty vehicle bearing down the road, until it crushed the deceased, who could not pull himself up before his gruesome death.The mangled, lifeless body of Sunday attracted a huge crowd, a development which caused heavy traffic gridlock for several hours. It took the intervention of men of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, to restore normal traffic flow.A police officer from the Ikpoba Police Division, who said he was not authorised to speak to the press, however said “arrests have been made and the corpse has been deposited in an undisclosed mortuary in Benin”.