Over 36 people
were on Saturday feared dead as two passenger buses collided and caught fire at
a Quarry site at Km 96, on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
An eyewitness,
said the 18-seater buses had a head-on collision and they caught fire
immediately.
“All the
passengers in the two buses were burnt beyond recognition.
“Only a baby
escaped death because the father of the child threw him out through the window
of the bus,’’ the witness told NAN.
Mr Yusuf Salami,
the Oyo State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, confirmed the
accident on the telephone. He said he had yet to be briefed on the casualty
figures, but confirmed that the accident involved two 18-seater buses.
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