AN articulate truck belonging to Dangote Cement company has been set ablaze in Lokoja, the Kogi state capital for crushing father and son to death.
Eye witness account told our correspondent that the empty truck was about negotiating the bend leading to Zone 8 when it lost control and crushed a pedestrian who was standing by the road side together with his two sons.
While the middle aged man was crushed alongside one of his sons who was badly injured, however luck smiled on the other persons who escaped unhurt.
It was gathered that onlookers who witnessed the incident constituted themselves into a mob to attack the truck and set it ablaze.
Meanwhile, the state police command while confirming the incident said that the truck lost control at the zone 8 roundabout and crushed a pedestrian and injured one other person who is currently receiving treatment at the hospital.
The Police Public Relations Officer, William Aya who spoke to our correspondent on phone said that the incident made the people on the area to take law into their hands and set the truck ablaze.
He however confirmed the death of one person while the identity of the of the other one injured could not be immediately ascertained.
He said that he is receiving medical attention in the hospital while a full scale investigation into the matter has commenced.
