Reports has it that not less than 60 students
of the Enugu State University of Science and
Technology (ESUT), narrowly escaped death on, following a mysterious fire that engulfed a Shuttle bus conveying them from
the institution to the city.
The bus caught fire, few metres away from
the Enugu State Broadcasting Service (ESBS), Enugu and the Nigerian Television
Authority, (NTA), Enugu.
Although there were no deaths, many of the
students and other passengers sustained
serious injuries in the near stampede that
resulted while escaping to safety through
the widows and other exit available spaces
in the bus.
Valuables including Laptops and handsets
belonging to the students were also
completely destroyed by the fire.
According to reports, the timely alert by
detached policemen from Independence
Layout, Enugu, saved the lives of the
students.
One of the survivors, Vivian, narrated how the
security operatives suddenly stopped the
driver, raising the alarm that fire was oozing
out from the vehicle.
“We were saved by God through the
policemen who were coming behind us. They
stopped our vehicle and shouted to us to
come down quickly. We jumped out. I thank
God nobody died in the inferno,” she said.
Another survivor, Ebere Okechi said “I lost my
Nokia phone, all the passengers inside the
vehicle did not know that the shuttle bus was
burning, outsiders were shouting fire, fire
before we started jumping out from the bus.”
Confirming the incident, the coordinator of the
Coal City Shuttle Bus, Nnaemeka Ojibe, said
the fire was caused by faulty battery.
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