By Adeyinka Aderibigbe

Two persons were on Wednesday confirmed dead in Lagos as a commercial motorcylist carrying two passengers ran into a bus in the restricted BRT lane.

A third person was reported injured and taken to hospital.

Operators of the BRT franchise, Primero Transport Services, confirmed the incident, saying the crash happened in the Ile-Epo area of Abule Egba on the Lagos mainland.

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Primero’s corporate affairs manager Mutiu Yekeen said the incident occurred about 4am when the BRT bus was going to pick up early morning commuters.

The bus was heading to Abule-Egba from Oshodi, Yekeen said.

On Tuesday an okada rider broke a leg when he ran into a BRT lane, hitting a bus in the Ikeja area of the state.