By Evelyn Usman & Bose Adelaja
No fewer than 19 people were reportedly killed while five others were injured, weekend, during three separate incidents which occurred in Lagos and Oshun States.
While that of Lagos claimed five lives, the Osun incident claimed 14 lives between the hours of 8 and 9am respectively.
In Lagos, four passengers were roasted to death during an inferno involving a yellow bus with nine passengers on board.
The incident was said to have occured when the yellow bus heading for Costain from Victoria Island allegedly lost control and hit the culvert and eventually summer salted which led to a serious inferno trapping the passengers out of which five of them were rescued while others were roasted to death.
Also at CA street, house 52 Shagari Estate, Mosan Okunola Ipaja, a six-month-old baby was said to be roasted to death.
The baby was said to be sleeping in the room when the mother allegedly lit a candle which was put on the wardrobe while she was engaged outside her two bedrooms apartment.
In Osun State, 14 passengers including those in a wedding train were killed when two buses collided near Ago Babalola Seminary.
One of the vehicles, from Akure with a wedding train had a head-on collission with another from Ilesa leaving 14 dead on the spot.
Both the South west Information Officer, National Emergency Management Authority NEMA and Director Lagos State Fire Services Razaq. Fadipe confirmed the development to Vanguard.
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