A man was killed on Monday evening after a coaster bus veered off the road and rammed into commuters opposite Sky Memorial in Wuse, Abuja.
The victim was identified as Henry Echi, a travel agent with Hinterland Travel, who hailed from Rivers state.
Echi was on official duty at the time of the incident, according to Martha Nwakwo, his colleague.
Nwakwo, who spoke in shock to a police officer at the scene, said the deceased had been waiting to board a vehicle when the bus ran into him.
Images from the scene showed one of the victim’s organs exposed and partially covered with documents he had been holding before the crash.
The documents were scattered across the spot where he fell.
Eyewitnesses say that the bus driver suddenly left his lane and sped into people waiting for transport.
“We don’t know whether his brakes failed, but many people could have died here today,” said Uba Abdullahi, a witness told Premium Times.
“People ran for safety, but the man was not lucky enough to escape,” he added.
Haruna Isah, deputy chairperson of the long bus drivers under the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Wuse, said the driver had reported himself to the police at the Berger Police Post.
Isah said the driver’s motorboy, who angry commuters had earlier surrounded, was rescued by police officers.
The deceased’s phone was recovered and handed over to a police officer identified by his name tag as Daniel Joel.