Victims of Edo explosion for mass burial today

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The mass burial announced by authorities of the University of Benin

Teaching Hospital for victims of last Friday’s multiple accident on the Benin-Ore Road, in Igbogui, Ovia South West Local Government Area of Edo State, will hold on Saturday (today).

Authorities of the hospital had arranged to bury the corpses of the

victims on Wednesday but could not, apparently due to their inability to secure enough space for about 60 corpses from the accident, that were deposited at its mortuary.

A source at the hospital said the victims would be buried at the Third Cemetery, located on Akugbe Street, off New Lagos Road, Benin.

The source further hinted that the burial would be preceded by a brief prayer session in the premises of UBTH by 8.00 am.

It was gathered that authorities of the Oredo Local Government Area approved a space for the mass burial at the Third Cemetery.

UBTH had in a statement said, “The management is left with no option, because the bodies were burnt beyond recognition. It is not in the best interest of the hospital and its immediate environs to continue to keep such bodies.”