13 Passengers Burnt Beyond Recognition As Jerrycan Of Petrol Inside Bus Bursts Into Flame In Delta

Thirteen persons, including children, were on Sunday afternoon burnt beyond recognition in a bus accident which occurred in Effurun, Delta.

The accident, which involved an 18-seater bus, also left five of its passengers with various degrees of burn injuries.

An eyewitness told newsmen that the vehicle was coming from the PTI roundabout, but stopped to pick a passenger who allegedly carried a jerrycan filled with petrol.

One of the survivors, Mr Martins Nwaowolo, said there were 18 passengers in the bus, including children and a pregnant woman.

“The driver stopped at the roundabout to pick a woman carrying a jerrycan, and in less than two minutes after the woman entered the bus, the jerrycan burst into flame.

Mother strangles her two-day-old baby, dumps him by riverside

A 23-year-old mother, Joy Iember Iorzua is currently cooling her heels at the Benue State Police Command for allegedly killing and dumping her two-day-old baby at the River Ujiiragbo, in Gwer, Benue state.

The mother, reportedly delivered the baby (boy) two days ago and later allegedly strangled him for reasons yet to be ascertained.

A source said ”after killing the baby, she wrapped his remains in a polythene bag, put him in a carton and dumped it at the popular Ujiiragbo River.

”The dastardly killing was however exposed when members of the vigilante group on patrol in the area, got wind of her action and her intention to escape from the community for fear of being apprehended.

”They trailed and arrested her, after which angry members of her community descended heavily on her before handing her over to the Police at Aliade.

”The truth is that this is not the first time this type of allegation is being levelled against her, and that was what prompted the angry reaction of the people who were outraged by her action”.

The Divisional Police Officer, DPO, for Aliade, Superintendent of Police, Bitrus Madani who confirmed the arrest disclosed that the suspect had been transferred to the State Command headquarters for further interrogation.

Woman fakes own kidnapping, demands N200,000 ransom from husband

The police in Enugu State has arrested a house wife, for stage-managing her own kidnapping and demanding the sum of N200, 000 from her husband Marcus Chukwu as ransom.

Also arrested in connection with the crime is her collaborator in the crime, one Chikwe Tochukwu, a commercial motorcycle operator.

DailyPost gathered that Marcus, a native of Agbogugu in Awgu local Government Area of Enugu State, had received a call from his wife, Nancy Chukwu, claiming that she had been abducted by unknown gunmen and that her abductors were demanding the sum of two hundred thousand naira.

The suspects thereafter gave Marcus an account number where the said ransom is to be paid.

However, instead of paying the ransom, Marcus reported the matter to the anti-kidnap unit of the police.

The police spokesman in Enugu State, Ebere Amaraizu, DSP, who confirmed the incident to DailyPost, disclosed that investigations conducted revealed that Tochukwu of Amakwe Okeremiri Aboh Mbaise in Imo state, residing at Agbogugu was the brain behind the stage managed kidnap, which was aimed at reaping off the woman’s husband.

In his confession to the police, Tochukwu said he is an okada rider that usually conveys Nancy home anytime she is returning from market, adding that Nancy lured her into the crime.

He further confessed that while he was together with Nancy, he used a tone suggestive of a kidnapper already holding Nancy under captivity, and demanded that the sum of two hundred thousand naira is to be paid as a ransom to the account number provided, which he also claimed belonged to his friend Chikwado.

On her part, Nancy, who also confessed to the crime, said she never knew what came over her prompting such behaviour.

“A full scale investigations into the alleged incident has intensified”, Amaraizu further stated.

source: dailypost