UBTH conducts mass burial for 70 accident victims

The Management of University of Benin
Teaching Hospital, UBTH, has said that it
will conduct a mass burial for 70
accident victims, today.
UBTH Public Relations Officer, Mrs.
Kehinde Ibitoye, in a statement in Benin,
Edo State, said the victims were involved
in auto-crashes which occurred on
Friday, April 5, at Ugbogui village on the
Benin-Ore expressway.
The accident involved a luxury bus, a
fuel tanker and a trailer belonging to
Dangote Group of Companies.
Ibitoye said the hospital's management
was negotiating with Oredo Local
Government Area for land for the mass
burial, adding that all the victims were
burnt beyond recognition.
She said the only accident victim who
was brought alive to the hospital also
died, noting that no passenger survived
the accident.
Sympathising with relatives of the
victims, she said: "The management is
left with no other option because the
bodies are burnt beyond recognition.
"It is not in the interest of the hospital
and its immediate environs to continue
to keep such bodies."