The canal occupies from north to south parallel to the Isolo-Oshodi expressway, and a banana plantation borders it, there by creating an image that it was safe, Alas! That thing that looked like grasses bordering a banana plantation wasnt actually grasses but a canal! Covered by a water hyacinth( a free-floating plant that) and thus invisible in the dark.
As the crowd surged towards the plantation, hundreds of them fell into the canal, those already in it where crushed by yet more falling people and in the ensuing confusion more than 600 people lost their lives many of them Children.
4. No One Knew there was an Ammunition Depot nearby:
Unless of course the military personnels, civilians weren’t allowed into that vicinity, hence many of them didn’t know that just a stone throw from where they live an ammunition storage was present.
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