Scores of people were burnt to death when a trailer lost control and hit vehicles at a police check point on a bridge at Berger area on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway Today.
Area H Police Commander, Godwin Nwobodo, an Assistant Commissioner, at the scene that over 20 people were killed.
Eyewitnesses said the impact started a fire which burnt completely eight vehicles, four of them passenger buses.
The eyewitnesses, who blamed the police for the accident, said the buses were fully loaded.
They said some 25 vehicles were involved in the multiple accident, but a correspondent counted 19.
The police had stopped some cars and buses on the bridge when a speeding trailer hit one of the vehicles from behind.
The fire created panic among motorists who while trying to escape hit each other's cars.
One of the vehicles rested on the railing of the bridge.
Angered by the incident, street urchins, popularly called Area Boys, made bonfires on the Ibadan-Lagos section of the expressway and the streets leading to Omole Estate and Sir Michael Otedola Housing Estate.
The police shot in the air to dispel the youths.
The incident created a heavy traffic jam on both sides of the expressway for several hours.
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