Armed men in military uniforms are said to have attacked passengers traveling on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Tuesday.
The suspected hijackers stormed out of a nearby bush outside the Sagamu interchange on their way to Lagos and began sporadically shooting at travelers in the 18-passenger intercity bus. One of the victims, who wished to remain anonymous, said:
We (passengers) were lucky to escape the gunmen, but many of us were injured by bullets and our bus was also badly damaged. Another video shows a man who survived the gunshot wounds recounting his experience, saying, "I thought I was dead, that I was shot.
They confronted our vehicle and shot us, we all lay down except the driver who was the target. They assumed we were all dead and retreated into the bushes.
The joint patrol team of police officers from Ogun and Oyo states arrived at the scene. scene later. All attempts to contact Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi for further details have been unsuccessful at the time his report was submitted.