Nigeria, July 16 -- middle-aged pregnant woman was on Tuesday afternoon burnt to death after a commercial bus in which she was riding somersaulted and burst into flames at Omi-Adio on the Ibadan-Abeokuta expressway.

PREMIUM TIMES gathered that eight other persons were trapped in the Toyota Liteace commercial bus which was taking passengers from Apata to Omi Adio on the one-lane expressway.

According to a witness, the driver lost control after the shaft of the vehicle pulled off, forcing the bus somersaulted several times.

The source said that the passengers numbering 10 were still trapped in the wreckage when it went up in flames.

He added that as sympathisers struggled to rescue the victims, the pregnant woman, who sat in the front s...