{"id":54772,"date":"2019-12-14T16:04:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T08:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54772"},"modified":"2019-12-14T16:04:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T08:04:02","slug":"nigeria-28-burned-to-death-in-bus-truck-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54772","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: 28 burned to death in bus-truck collision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/world\/2017\/07\/253876\/13-killed-russia-bus-truck-collision\"><img src=\"https:\/\/assets.nst.com.my\/images\/articles\/02JSVolgaRiver_field_image_listing_featured.var_1498986987.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">The accident involved a bus taking a family to a ceremony and a truck transporting cows to market<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KANO (Nigeria), Dec 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Twenty-eight people were killed in northern Nigeria when two vehicles collided and caught fire, the country\u2019s Road Safety Commission said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accident involved a bus taking a family to a ceremony and a truck transporting cows to market, Rilwanu Sulaiman, the commission\u2019s spokesman in Bauchi state, said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe two vehicles had a head-on collision and caught fire, killing 28 people on board. All victims were burnt beyond recognition,\u201d Sulaiman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll the 24 people in the commuter bus and four from the other vehicle were killed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials have launched an investigation into the accident, which occurred at Gubi Gari village, 18 kilometres from the state capital Bauchi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accidents are common on Nigeria\u2019s poorly-maintained roads, many caused by reckless driving, speeding and disregard for traffic rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In April 19, wedding guests in Jigawa state were killed when their overloaded bus skidded off the road and crashed after its tyre burst. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The accident involved a bus taking a family to a ceremony and a truck transporting cows to market KANO (Nigeria), Dec 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Twenty-eight people were killed in northern Nigeria when two vehicles collided and caught fire, the country\u2019s Road Safety Commission said. The accident involved a bus taking a family to a ceremony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54772"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}