- Two commercial buses, a Toyota Sienna bus and a Toyota Hiace bus, that were involved in the mishap reportedly had a head-on collision
A fatal road accident at Aloma community in Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi State has claimed at least fourteen lives.
Thirteen other persons were said to have sustained varying degrees of injury in the accident which happened on Sunday.
Two commercial buses, a Toyota Sienna bus and a Toyota Hiace bus, that were involved in the mishap reportedly had a head-on collision.
The sienna was heading toward Abuja from Port Harcourt and while Hiace was heading to the Southern part of the country when they collided.
According to an eyewitness, all the ten occupants of the Sienna bus survived the accident but sustained severe injuries and had since been hospitalised.
The eyewitness said: “The 13 persons including the driver of the Hiace Bus were completely roasted by the fire that engulfed it immediately after the head-on coalition with the Sienna bus.
“But one out of the four surviving persons in the bus died in hospital from the burns suffered bringing the number to 14 that died.”
He noted that the injured victims were promptly rescued by the villagers who quickly came to the scene of the accident.
“It’s because of their timely intervention that the Sienna bus did not get burnt as well, ” he said.
He blamed the accident on overspeeding and potholes along a bend close to Government Science Secondary School, Aloma.
He said it took rescuers 3 hours to remove the driver of the Sienna bus, whose two legs were reportedly badly damaged.
The Sector Commander, FRSC, Samuel Oyediji confirmed the incident but said he was yet to get details.
“I’m yet to be briefed by the unit commander in that axis of the true picture of the accident, ” he