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Truck Crushes Blind Man To Death In Edo

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  • “They were almost at the centre of the road, they wanted to cross and pass through the roundabout but were very unlucky as a tipper driver crushed him on the head and he died instantly, but nothing happened to the daughter

A truck driver has crushed one beggar who was about crossing the Benin-Auchi road to the opposite side, around the by-pass in the early hours of Saturday.

It was gathered from eyewitnesses that the daughter who was crossing her father escaped by a whisker.

“We saw what happened, the man is a blind beggar who was crossing the road with the help of his daughter.

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“They were almost at the centre of the road, they wanted to cross and pass through the roundabout but were very unlucky as a tipper driver crushed him on the head and he died instantly, but nothing happened to the daughter,” he said.

The dead beggar has since been evacuated to a nearby mortuary.

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