A four-month-old baby was on Tuesday crushed to death by a heavy duty truck in Ughelli, Delta State.



The truck which was conveying crates of soft drinks crushed the baby who had fallen off the back of her mother along the Okorodafe Roundabout.



FirstAfricaNews gathered that the mother simply named Ese was travelling on a commercial motorcycle, popularly known as Okada, when the baby fell off.



According to witnesses, the mother of the baby, who is in her 30s, was struggling to adjust her wrapper with which she strapped the baby to her back, while the Okada was in motion.



One of the witnesses, identified as Efemena Okiemute, revealed that the baby fell on the middle of the road and was immediately crushed by the truck, which was directly behind the Okada.



Officials of Ughelli Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, later cleared the remains of the dead baby from the road.



The baby and the bereaved mother were going to the family house to mark Christmas when she met her untimely death.

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God have Mercy!!!