Thursday, 17 January 2013


Fourteen Nigerians were killed on Wednesday and four others were seriously injured when their bus crashed into a truck and caught fire near Potiskum, Yobe state in north eastern Nigeria, a road safety official said.
“At around 6:30 am (0530 GMT) today a commuter bus which was carrying 18 passengers crashed into an
abandoned truck in the middle of the road that had lost control and fell on its side overnight,” Usman Masari of the Federal Road Safety Commission said.
The crash happened near the town of Potiskum, capital of Yobe state, added Masari, head of the state Federal Road Safety Commission.
“The bus caught up in flames, resulting in the death(s) of 14 passengers while four others sustained serious injuries,” he said.
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.
At least 27 people on a truck laden with cattle and sheep drowned after their vehicle plunged into a river in northwest Sokoto state last month, officials said

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