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No fewer than 12 people were burnt to death in a ghastly auto crash, which occurred on Monday along Kano-Zaria highway in Kano, the Kano State Fire Service has disclosed.
Spokesperson for the Service, Saminu Yusuf, said in a statement on Tuesday that the incident involving two commercial buses, occurred at Tsamawa town in Garun Mallam Local Council of the state, barely 40 kilometers away from the capital city.
“Our men from Kura reached the area at about 15:12 hours and found that two commercial vehicles, a Hiace bus and J5 bus, all with unknown registration numbers, collided and were engulfed in fire. 12 people were involved in the accident – 11 from the Hiace bus which was coming from Zaria to Kano and one person inside the J5, heading towards Kano,” Yusuf said.
He added: “All recovered victims were unconscious and found dead. Their names and ages were unidentified”.
Recall that on January 6, 19 persons lost their lives in an auto-crash along the same Kano – Zaria highway in an area called Bagauda, near the Nigeria Law School campus when two commercial buses collided.
The accident which allegedly resulted from over speeding, reckless driving and loss of control, involved forty-five passengers, claimed 19 lives while the remaining 26 passengers sustained various degrees of injuries.
The FRSC has said that apart from insurgency and banditry, road crashes is among the leading cause of death in Nigeria, killing a total of 5,574 persons in 2020 and 3,648 persons in the first half of 2021.