Three die in bus fire in Ilorin
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on ThisDay
Three people were burnt to death when a passenger bus caught fire after colliding with a truck in Ilorin, Kwara State. The collision occurred as the truck was making a U-turn, and Nigerian road safety officials evacuated the bodies, according to their local commander cited by This Day.
Three people died in a fire after a bus collided with a truck on Okolowo Expressway in Ilorin, the capital of Nigeria’s Kwara State, ThisDay reports. The accident happened on Thursday, according to the newspaper, which cited Kabiru Babatunde Kazeem, the local commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps.
The truck, which had come from Shao, reportedly hit the bus while making a U-turn towards Okolowo. The bus was travelling from Lagos to northern Nigeria and carrying day-old chicks; the truck was carrying bags suspected to contain sawdust, ThisDay reports. A witness quoted by the newspaper said the collision triggered a fire that engulfed both vehicles. Road safety officials evacuated the victims’ bodies.
