Three die in armed attack on passenger bus in Nigeria

  Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Three persons died early Wednesday when armed robbers opened fire on a luxury passenger bus in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos, the police said.
   The dead include the driver, his conductor and a passenger.
   The incident occurred along the Oshodi-Apapa expressway, one of the three major thoroughfares in the commercial city, in the early hours of the day, when buses travelling all-night from the eastern and northern parts of the country usually arrive in Lagos.
   Attacks on luxury passenger buses have increased in recent times, claiming lives and property.

23 mai 2002 10:58:00




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