Death toll in Wednesday’s school bus fire tragedy in which 15 pupils of Divine Wisdom Group of Schools, Amosu area, Ibadan were burnt while being conveyed to school, has increased to five. Thirteen out of the 21 pupils of the school located in the Lagelu Local Government Area of the state were rushed to the emergency unit of the University College Hospital (UCH) after they were trapped and got burnt in the Ford school bus, which caught fire while conveying them to school.
After the fire was put off, the bus was taken to the Alabebe Division of the Nigeria Police Force. While some of the pupils aged between five and 11 were rushed to different private hospitals around Iyana-Church area, 13 others were rushed to the UCH due to the severity of the burns and were placed on oxygen. Eight of the pupils suffered shock as a result of the incident.
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