Six burnt to death in Ogun auto accident (Punch)

Six persons were reportedly burnt to death at J4, in the  Ogbere end of the Sagamu-Benin Expressway on Wednesday in an accident  involving a container-laden truck and two commercial  buses.

The accident occurred 24 hours after 10 persons lost their lives when a luxury bus rammed into a stationary truck at the Asese end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

The latest accident was said to have occurred at a section of the road where there was a diversion of traffic to a single lane.

The spokesperson for the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Babatunde Akinbiyi, who confirmed the accident and the death of six persons, said 10 others suffered varying degrees of injury.

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