Twelve passengers were burnt to death on Saturday morning along the Benin-Auchi Highway in an accident involving a Toyota Hiace bus and a truck.
Cyril Mathew, the Edo sector commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), confirmed the incident and said the crash occurred around 5 a.m. at Igueoviobo community, near an army checkpoint on the highway.
According to the FRSC official, the bus, which departed from Zuba in Abuja and was heading to Benin, collided with an oncoming truck en route Auchi.
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