29 dead, 16 injured in Nigeria bus crash: police
LAGOS (AFP) - Two buses collided head-on and burst into flames in northern Nigeria's Yobe state on Friday, killing at least 29 people, police said.
"Two Toyota Hiace Buses... travelling in opposite directions had a head-on collision and thereafter went off in flames. Twenty nine persons -- eleven of them burnt beyond recognition -- have so far been confirmed dead," national police spokesman Frank Mba said in a statement, adding that 16 people were also injured.
Police said the accident happened at 1:00 pm (1200 GMT) in the state's Nengere area and the injured were taken to a hospital in the neaby city of Potiskum.
The statement lamented the "incessant cases of accidents" on Nigeria's highways, considered some of the most dangerous in the world.