No fewer than nine persons were on Thursday burnt to death in a lone accident involving a Toyota Hiace bus at Ijebu-Ife on the Sagamu – Benin Expressway.
Mr Clement Oladele, the Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), confirmed the incident to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abeokuta.
Oladele said that the accident, which happened a 3.20 p.m., involved 19 people.
He said that the ill-fated bus was conveying 17 adults and two children before the incident.
The FRSC boss stated that 10 other passengers were rescued with three of them sustaining serious injuries.
He said that that preliminary investigation showed that the bus, which departed from the East was Lagos bound, was conveying the passengers with some inflammable chemical products.
“Preliminary investigation by the FRSC Crash Investigator revealed that the vehicle while on transit suffered malfunctioning and had to stop intermittently at several times to repair faulty fuel pump and fuel tank which they kept on…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
