20 passengers burnt beyond recognition in terrible accident along Bauchi-Maiduguri expressway

No fewer than 30 people have been burnt beyond recognition in a fatal auto crash that occurred at Tirwun village along Bauchi-Maiduguri expressway.

The accident occurred on Sunday between a Toyota 18-passenger bus in its way to Maiduguri from Jos and a Gulf taxi approaching Bauchi.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Bauchi State Command, DSP Ahmed Wakil, said police deposited 20 corpses of the victims at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital’s Mortuary.

DSP Wakil added that the two survivors who were females, were receiving treatment at the Hospital.