{"id":1569,"date":"2013-04-05T23:43:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T23:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/nigeria-over-60-die-in-ghastly-multiple-crash\/"},"modified":"2013-04-05T23:43:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T23:43:05","slug":"nigeria-over-60-die-in-ghastly-multiple-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-over-60-die-in-ghastly-multiple-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Over 60 die in ghastly multiple crash"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Over 60 persons were Friday afternoon burnt to death in a fatal multiple accident involving a trailer, an oil tanker and a luxury bus.<\/p>\n Following the accident which occurred at Ugbogui village, along the Benin-Ore-Lagos Expressway, a heavy traffic gridlock resulted with commuters on the dual carriageway stranded for several hours.<\/p>\n Three passengers of the luxury bus who were rescued were rushed to a nearby hospital. They were badly burnt.<\/p>\n The driver of the trailer, his motor boy and 57 passengers in the luxury bus were among the dead.<\/p>\n Witnesses said the accident occurred at about 1.30 pm, when a trailer loaded with cement reportedly had a burst tyre and rammed into a petrol tanker carrying fuel which hit the fully loaded luxury bus with the inscription “Young Shall Grow Motors.” The luxury bus reportedly burst into flame upon contact.<\/p>\n An official of the Federal Road Safety Commission [FRSC], who confirmed the story but pleaded anonymity, explained that the trailer was coming from Lagos while the tanker and luxury bus were said to be travelling in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n He said rescue operation had commenced, while fire fighters were yet to get to the scene of the accident at press time.<\/p>\n In an interview, a spokesman for the FRSC, Jonas Agwu said 36 people were killed in the accident.<\/p>\n “Thirty-six deaths confirmed” from the accident on the Benin-Ore highway at Igbogui village in southern Edo state, Jonas Agwu said.<\/p>\n He said the dead included 30 passengers from the bus. Four people from the tanker died as well as two children who were at a nearby mechanic workshop, Agwu said.<\/p>\n Three people were rescued, he said. Details were still emerging from the scene of the accident.<\/p>\n Agwu said that fire which erupted from the accident quickly “spread to a nearby mechanic workshop where eight other vehicles got burnt. A nearby local market also got burnt.”<\/p>\n The highway links Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos with eastern and southern states of the country.<\/p>\n Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, has one of the worst road accident records in Africa, with poor roads, badly maintained vehicles and reckless driving conspiring to kill thousands every year.<\/p>\n Eighteen people were killed and nine others seriously injured Wednesday when their bus veered off its lane and collided with another bus along a highway linking the capital Abuja to the central city of Lokoja, officials said.<\/p>\n ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Source: PM News<\/p>\n DisNaija.Com<\/b> publishes regular posts on Nigeria News,<\/a> Nigerian Newspapers,<\/a> Online Nigeria Gist.<\/a><\/p>\n Follow us on Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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