A yet-to-be-identified man in the early hours of Monday crushed four people to death in Ijoka Area of Akure, Ondo State capital.
According to an eyewitness, the man was driving a Toyota car along the road and suddenly skidded off its lane to crush the victims who were on commercial motorcycles.
Immediately the accident happened some sympathizers who rushed to rescue the victims and the driver, later found some fetish items inside the driver’s vehicle, raising suspension that is a ‘yahoo boy’.
”Angered by their discovery in the car, the sympathizers descended on the driver and beat him to a point of comatose.
”For the timely intervention of the men of the state police command, who arrived at the scene, the driver and his vehicle would have been set ablaze by the mob following what they discovered in his vehicle.
The deceased was later taken to the state hospital mortuary while those injured were treated at the same hospitals.
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