Fourteen people have lost their lives in an accident at Aloma community in Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi State.
The accident which occurred on Sunday, April 21, involved a Toyota Sienna bus heading towards Abuja from Port Harcourt and a Toyota Hiace bus heading to the Southern a part of the country.
13 other persons survived the accident with varying degrees of injury.
Eyewitnesses stated the accident occurred when two commercial Toyota buses had a head-on collision.
The eyewitness stated, “The 13 persons including the driver of the Hiace Bus had been utterly roasted by the fire that engulfed it immediately after the head-on coalition with the Sienna bus.
“However one out of the 4 surviving persons within the bus died in hospital from the burns suffered bringing the number to 14 that died.”
He added that not one of the 10 occupants of the Sienna Bus died however was badly wounded and receiving treatment within the hospital.
He noted that the injured victims had been rescued by the villagers who quickly got here to the scene of the accident.
“It’s due to their well timed intervention that the Sienna bus didn’t get burnt as well, ” he stated.
He blamed the accident on overspeeding and potholes along a bend close to Government Science Secondary School, Aloma.
He stated it took rescuers 3 hours to remove the driver of the Sienna bus, whose two legs had been reportedly badly damaged.
Contacted, the Sector Commander, FRSC, Samuel Oyediji confirmed the incident however stated he was but to get details.
“I’m but to be briefed by the unit commander in that axis of the true image of the accident, ” he stated.
