About 11 persons were
killed on Thursday after a commercial bus with 14 passengers on board went up
in flames on the Otedola Bridge in the Berger area of Lagos.
It was learnt that the
deceased comprised eight males and three females while three persons were
rescued from the wreckage alive.
Punch gathered that the
bus was at top speed heading towards Berger from the Mushin area of the state
when one of its tyres burst.
The bus was said to
have somersaulted several times before it was engulfed in flames.
Officials of Lagos
State Emergency Management Agency, the state Fire Service, Federal Road Safety
Corps and the Nigerian police were on the scene of the crash.
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