January 9, 2002	Wednesday	Shawwal 24, 1422

KANO (Nigeria), Jan 8: Fifty people, most of them members of a wedding party, have died after a horrific head-on collision between two buses in northern Nigeria, officials said on Tuesday.

A small Toyota bus carrying around 10 people and an inter-city Nissan bus carrying just over 40 people, crashed on Monday in the village of Durbunde, 90 kms east of Kano, health workers said.

Forty-four people died on the spot while 10 people were injured and taken to a nearby hospital, six of whom died on Tuesday, a senior hospital official said.—AFP