Residents Of Bayelsa Protest Death Of Five Person Killed By Tipper

An accident on Monday claimed the lives of a commercial tricycle operator and his four passengers in Bayelsa State.

It was gathered that they were crushed to death along the Tombia-Amassoma Road in Yenagoa, the state capital at about 7:30 pm when the tricycle and the tipper crashed into one another.

The bodies of the victims had been deposited in the mortuary of a hospital in Yenagoa.

But the tricycle operators under the auspices of Tombia along Keke Unit, on Tuesday morning, protested the killing of their member by the tipper driver.

They blocked a section of the Tombia-Amassoma Road and stopped other operators from plying the road during the action.

A man name Mbu said that his successor died two weeks ago, and, yesterday, evening (of Monday), he saw one of his members and four passengers died.

He said they are on this protest to tell the whole world that they were not happy about the killing of their member and his passengers by the tipper driver.