Abuja, June 1 -- At least 21 people were killed and three others injured when a bus carrying a group of athletes returning from the recently concluded Nigeria's National Sports Festival crashed on a busy expressway in the northern part of the country, the traffic police said.
Olusegun Ogungbemide, the national spokesperson for the Federal Road Safety Corps, said in a statement late Saturday that the bus carrying the athletes, identified as the contingent of the northern state of Kano to the 2025 National Sports Festival, crashed along the Kaduna-Kano expressway on Saturday afternoon.
At high speed, the bus veered off the road and rammed into a nearby bush. The traffic police blamed "fatigue and excessive speed" for the tragic road crash....