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About fourteen people were killed and four others seriously injured today, Wednesday January 16, 2013, when their bus crashed into a truck and caught fire in Yobe State, northern Nigeria, a road safety official said. As reported by thenews.com, the accident happened near the town of Potiskum, capital of Yobe state.  "At around 6:30 am (0530 GMT) today a commuter bus which was carrying 18 passengers crashed into an abandoned truck in the middle of the road that had lost control and fell on its side overnight," Usman Masari head of the state Federal Road Safety Commission, told AFP.  He added that "The bus caught up in flames, resulting in the death(s) of 14 passengers while four others sustained serious injuries,"  The bad roads in Nigeria have made the country one of the countries with the worst road accident records in Africa. Source: thenews.com

Sorrow, tears and blood filled the air at Mobalufun junction in Odogbolu Local Government Area of Ogun State when a truck loaded with flour rammed into a commuter bus heading to Lagos kill all the passengers on the spot. About thirty (30) persons were feared dead in the auto crash. The incident happened on Tuesday 11 th September 2012. According to a report in the Vanguard, traders and some commuters standing by the road side, all were victims of the auto crash. Some of these commuters sustained serious injuries from the crash. The injured according to a source are receiving treatment at Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital Sagamu and General Hospital Ijebu-Ode. As at 0800hrs on the fateful day, officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps, the Police and the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE) were seen on the scene of the accident evacuating dead bodies.