Bus driver slashes passenger’s throat over N10

A commercial bus driver has reportedly killed a passenger over N10 in Warri, Delta State. The bus driver, plying Orhuwhorun and Warri route allegedly killed one of his passengers with a sharp object during an argument over N10. It was gathered that when the deceased, who boarded the bus at Enerhen junction, Warri, got to his destination, paid the driver, but the fare was short of N10. The driver, who did not take kindly to the shortage, grabbed the passenger and also seized his mobile phone.

The driver and passenger started quarrelling, with the argument snowballing into a fisticuff. During the exchange of punches, the passenger succeeded in inflicting injury on the driver. The driver, blinded by rage, grabbed a screw driver from his bus and stabbed the passenger’s throat, perforating it. It turned out to be a fatal stab.