Nigeria, Aug. 25 -- A 27-year-old woman, Aisha Maikudi Ibrahim, died on Saturday after her car reportedly somersaulted and fell into the Lagos Lagoon from the Third Mainland Bridge.

Family sources told PREMIUM TIMES that Ms Ibrahim, who lived in Gbagada, was returning from an event in Ikoyi where she worked as a vendor when the crash occurred.

"She called her mother around 1 a.m. to say she would be home in 20 minutes," her aunt, Hadiza Oyewumi, said in a telephone interview on Sunday.

"By 2 a.m., her phone was unreachable. By 4 a.m., her mother became worried, and by 6 a.m., her elder sister and mother set out to look for her."

Ms Oyewumi explained that on their way to the Island, the family saw emergency officials and bystanders gat...