Kano - Carnage continued on the Nigerian roads this weekend when 61 people died in two separate accidents as buses drove off bridges.
Forty-nine people were killed and 23 were recovering in hospital yesterday after an overnight bus, travelling from Lagos to the northern city of Kano, blew a tyre and plunged into a river. On Saturday, 12 people died after a mini-bus hit a trailer on a bridge in Lagos and spun off into a canal.
Nigeria's roads are notorious for the high number of fatalities in accidents due to the large number of poorly-maintained vehicles, inferior road surfaces and the overcrowding of cars and buses.