20 killed in road accident in NE Nigeria


By Bosun

LAGOS, April 19 (Xinhua) -- Twenty people were killed and one person was injured in a road accident Tuesday morning in Nigeria's northeastern state of Bauchi, traffic police said.

The accident, which involved a commercial bus and a Sharan Volkswagen vehicle, occurred at Huturu village on the Bauchi-Kano road, Yusuf Abdullahi, a sector commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps in Bauchi, said at a press briefing in the city of Bauchi, the state capital.

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