No fewer than 10 passengers were burnt to death on Oyo-Ogbomoso road on Thursday.
The passengers, involved in a head-on collision involving a Mazda and a Toyota Hiace passenger buses, were burnt beyond recognition.
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) confirmed the incident in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Ibadan.
The FRSC Sector Commander in the state, Joshua Adekanye, said the incident occurred at about 5.30 a.m around Kilometres 12 Ijawaya on Oyo-Ogbomoso road.
He said that the buses with registration numbers LEM 963 XA and NSR 222 ZS were coming from Lagos and Nasarawa states respectively.
Adekanye said that the vehicles went on flame immediately resulting to the burning of the occupants.
He attributed the cause of the accident to speeding and overloading.
He called on motorists to always shun night travelling, speeding, and overloading, adding that the fatality would have reduced if the drivers were not on night journey.
Police in Oyo State has arrested two persons suspected to be members of a secret cult, the Eiye Confraternity over an alleged murder.
They also arrested two other persons for alleged armed robbery and murder.
Police spokesman in the state, SP Adewale Osifeso paraded the suspects at the police headquarters, Eleiyele, Ibadan on Thursday.
He said the suspects are members of the dreaded secret cult responsible for armed robberies and killing of innocent people in Oyo town and its environs.
Osifeso said also that the suspects invaded a house at Okun Compound, Molete in Oyo town on Monday at about 2.20 a.m., armed with guns, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons and murdered one Jimoh Akeem.
“The complainant managed to escape from the attack, but the deceased who shared his apartment and was sleeping at the time was not able to escape and was gruesomely murdered.
“The assailants vandalised properties in the house and fled with some valuable items,’’ Osifeso said.
He said police investigations at the respective hideouts of two of the suspects led to their arrest.
He added that the duo confessed to the crime and also to the fact that they belonged to Eiye Confraternity.
He added that investigations to track down other members of the criminal gang had continued.
One of the suspects told newsmen that the deceased belonged to a rival cult gang that attacked members of his confraternity earlier, but managed to escape.
“Eight of us later went to meet them where they normally sleep and killed one of them with a machete.
“Five out of the eight people that went for the operation went inside the house and killed the victim,’’ the suspect said.
The two suspected armed robbers that were paraded allegedly invaded Iseke area of Oyo town attacked and murdered one Olamilekan Ajakaye and dispossessed him of his cell phone and huge sums of money.
Items recovered from the suspects were 25 live cartridges, one Walkie Talkie, and two axes.
NAN
