10 burnt to death in Lagos auto crash

Kazeem Ugbodaga

Tragedy struck at Badagry area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria last night as 10 people were burnt to death in a ghastly motor accident.

PM News gathered that the incident took place around 10:30pm on Monday as two vehicles collided, with one of them, a commercial bus bursting into flame and roasting its occupants.

Rasak Fadipe, Director, Lagos State Fire Service, in a text message around 11.21pm on Tuesday said there had been a ghastly motor accident with fatalities.

“A ghastly motor accident resulted in flames in Badagry with fatalities recorded,” the text message read, but he did not disclose the number of people roasted.

When contacted on phone, Fadipe said there was a collision between an unnamed vehicle and a commercial bus with passengers, saying that the bus caught fire with people roasted alive in the inferno.

But Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Lagos State, Dolapo Badmos confirmed that 10 people were burnt to death while seven others suffered serious injuries in the accident.

Badmos said the 10 people were burnt beyond recognition while the seven others who suffered serious injuries have been taken to the Badagry General Hospital for urgent treatment.