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The management of General Hospital Badagry, near Lagos State, on Sunday night, released the bodies of 15 dead passengers to their relatives.
Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Olatunde Bakare, said eight other injured passengers had also been discharged and handed over to their relatives.
He said relatives of the discharged passengers had insisted in taking them to Benin Republic for further treatment. According to the medical director, 13 passengers were brought to the hospital dead, while 10 of them were gravely injured.
“We started treating them immediately, but, unfortunately, two of them gave up the ghost during the treatment, making the dead to increase to 15 altogether. Their relatives from Benin Republic came to identify them and later brought police report, saying they wanted to continue their treatment at home in Cotonou.
“They also brought police reports asking us to release their dead bodies to them, so they could go and bury them at home. So, eight treated passengers and 15 dead bodies involved in a fatal accident on Sunday morning have been released to their relatives, and they have taken them to Benin Republic,” he said.
Bakare said the injured passengers enjoyed free medical treatment, courtesy of the Lagos State Government and General Hospital, Badagry.
“We did not collect money from any of them, all the drugs, blood and services rendered are paid for by the Lagos State Government and the General Hospital,” he said.
No fewer than 14 people, including a four-month-old baby, died on Sunday morning, in an auto accident along Lagos-Badagry Expressway in Lagos.
Unit Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps, Williams Manga, who made the disclosure, in Badagry, on Sunday, said nine other people sustained injuries in the accident which occurred at the Agemowo axis of the road, at about 7.31am.
He said a Mazda commercial bus with registration number MUS 411 XU, carrying 19 passengers, travelling from Lagos end, collided with a granite-filled truck with registration number AKM 926YQ, coming from Badagry end of the highway.
