At least 25 people died on Wednesday when a bus lost control and rammed into an oil tanker across a busy Lagos highway in one of the city’s worst accidents on record, ‘The Guardian’ newspaper reported. AFP said up to 40 were killed.
The bus - heading to the city neighbourhood of Mushin from Ijora - suffered a brake failure, skidded across the eight-lane Western Avenue then smashed into the oncoming tanker and the Abalti Barracks. The impact tore away an 15 metre-long section off the barrack fence.
“What could have been an inferno from the impact with the fuel tanker was immediately prevented by fire fighting men from Reverend Nwake Barracks,” ‘The Guardian reported.
Traffic wardens and soldiers joined the rescue effort, with scores of injured taken to the nearby Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).
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