Ember Months Disaster: Pregnant Woman & 6 Others Roasted To Death

A pregnant woman, a baby and Seven people, were at the weekend roasted to death, while five officials of Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE) and an unspecified number of traffic police were injured by hoodlums at Kara, along Lagos/Ibadan expressway. The accident, which involved an 18-seat bus, occurred at about 3.30pm as the vehicle, which took off in Lagos reportedly went up flames.

Vanguard gathered that the commercial bus painted in white colour, with blue stripes suddenly developed leakages on the fuel tank, which spilled its contents. One of the passengers was said to have noticed a spark from the engine and raised the alarm which made the driver to stop abruptly in order to check the cause of the incident.

Eye witnesses account said all the passengers scampered for safety as soon as the vehicle stopped but this was too late as the fire had made the vehicle’s door to jam. It was gathered that before help could come, seven of the passengers, including a pregnant woman and a baby, were burnt beyond recognition while eleven others sustained varying degrees of injuries.

Some of the sympathisers were said to have put a call across to the fire fighters in Ogun State but none arrived the scene until the situation degenerated.