Friday, June 10, 2011

19 killed in collison in Nigeria

Nineteen people were killed and nine others injured when a truck slammed into a bus in southwestern Nigeria.

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Lagos -

Nineteen people were killed and nine others injured when a truck slammed into a bus in southwestern Nigeria, police said on Thursday.

The truck driver ran away after the head-on collision on Wednesday near Akure, the capital of Ondo State, a state police spokesman said.

“Nineteen died on the spot, nine injured (were) rushed to state hospital,” spokesman Adeniran Aremu said in a statement to AFP.

The truck driver's apprentice was arrested, he said.

Newspaper reports said he lost control of the vehicle while trying to avoid a pothole and it collided with the overloaded bus. - Sapa-AFP

Source: http://www.iol.co.za/19-killed-in-collison-in-nigeria-1.1080966

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