Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar
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fewer than 16 police recruits were burnt to death while six others
were critically injured in an auto accident on Sunday in Omu Aran,
Kwara State.
The victims were said to be on their way to Nasarawa State when the accident occurred at about 10am.
An unspecified number of women were said
to be among the dead in the accident involving an 18-seater Hummer bus
and a Mercedes Benz 190 model.
While a source, who claimed to be an
eyewitness told journalists that 16 people died, the Kwara State
Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Mr. Christopher
Ademoluti, said only two people died.
Ademoluti, in a telephone interview with our correspondent, said the driver of the Mercedez Benz had a locked steering.
He explained that in an attempt by the
driver to make the steering to be free, the vehicle veered off to the
other side of the road and the Hummer bus rammed onto it, hit an
electric pole and a house before it burst into flame.
The accident occurred on the Omu Aran-Ilofa Road, the same spot
where a commercial motorcyclist died in an accident in December 2012.
Most of the occupants of the bus,
which took off from Ilorin, were said to be of Kwara State origin and
had just concluded their police training.
Another eyewitness said the Mercedes
Benz car, marked AC 345 DKA, was heading toward Omu Aran before it had a
head-on collision with the bus in front of the Federal Government
College
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