BY Evelyn Usman

LAGOS – Crisis broke out between factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, in Mile 12 area of Lagos, Sunday, leaving one person dead and several others injured.

Several motorists reportedly had their vehicle windscreens shattered during the fight, which disrupted both human and vehicular movements from Owode to Ketu on the Ikorodu expressway.

It was gathered that trouble started following disagreement over the collection of toll by a faction of the union at a particular bus-stop, which met stiff resistance from youths suspected to be from Owode-Orile area.

The disagreement  was said to have degenerated into a free-for-all where dangerous weapons, such as broken bottles, cutlasses and axes, were freely used. In the process, a man simply identified as Are was reportedly hacked to death.

Policemen arrived and fired tear gas to disperse the warring youths and stop the fight from spreading to other parks. No one was arrested, as the warring factions took to their heels on sighting the policemen.

Spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, Mr. Joseph Jaiyeoba, when contacted, confirmed the violence but could not say whether there were casualties. He said he was yet to get details of the incidence.