No fewer than 19 passengers were burnt to death on Saturday
in an accident along the Akure-Owo Expressway in Ondo State.
Confirming the incident, the Public Relations Officer of the
Ondo State Police Command, Mr Femi Joseph, said that bodies of the victims had
been deposited at the mortuary of the Ondo State General Hospital in Akure.
He explained that the accident involved a fully loaded
18-seater bus moving towards Abuja and a lorry moving in the opposite
direction.
Joseph said that the lorry had a head-on collision with the
bus while trying to avoid a pothole on the road, after which the bus went up in
flames with no single survivor.
“Today being June 8, about 0330 hours, immediately after
airport junction at Oba-Ile in Akure, there occurred a head-on collision
between a lorry with registration No. GG 873 XM Lagos and an 18
passenger-seater bus with registration No. YLA 25 XU Adamawa.
“The 18 people burnt without a survivor, while the lorry
driver and the motor boy ran away to an unknown destination.
“The cause of the accident was as a result of the lorry
dogging a pothole when it swerved and had a collision with the bus going to
Abuja while coming from Owo.
Efforts to trace the fleeing driver of the lorry is
ongoing,” the police spokesman said.
(NAN
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