Update on Drowned Bus, NEMA Recovers Bodies
The National Emergency Management
Agency, NEMA, on Tuesday, said that the remaining five corpses of the victims of
the passenger bus that plunged into a river along Ijebu-Ode/Ore
Expressway on Friday had been recovered.
One more corpse was recovered on Sunday in addition to the 12 bodies recovered on Saturday.
The 36-seater Federal Urban Mass Transit Scheme bus with registration number ABUJA 428 XA conveying 21 passengers from Lagos to Benin, Edo State, for a funeral ceremony plunged into the river when the driver allegedly dozed off and lost control of the vehicle.
While three of the passengers of the ill-fated bus survived the accident, officials of NEMA, Federal Road Safety Corps and Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement only succeeded in pulling out the bus and recovered 12 bodies on Saturday. Families of the victims have been collecting the remains of their relations at Ijebu-Ode General Hospital.
So sad... May their soul rest in peace
One more corpse was recovered on Sunday in addition to the 12 bodies recovered on Saturday.
The 36-seater Federal Urban Mass Transit Scheme bus with registration number ABUJA 428 XA conveying 21 passengers from Lagos to Benin, Edo State, for a funeral ceremony plunged into the river when the driver allegedly dozed off and lost control of the vehicle.
While three of the passengers of the ill-fated bus survived the accident, officials of NEMA, Federal Road Safety Corps and Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement only succeeded in pulling out the bus and recovered 12 bodies on Saturday. Families of the victims have been collecting the remains of their relations at Ijebu-Ode General Hospital.
So sad... May their soul rest in peace
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