LAGOS, Sept 9: At least 70 people have been killed, most burned to death, in a road crash involving a bus and several other vehicles in central Nigeria, state television reported on Tuesday.

The accident on Sunday night involved a passenger bus and three other vehicles, which piled up in a deadly inferno near the Murtala Mohammad bridge on the Abuja-Lokoja highway, 100km south of the capital.

Television pictures showed rescue workers removing charred bodies and wounded survivors from the mangled wreck.

The cause of the accident was not immediately clear but such road crashes with high death tolls are common in the oil producing country of over 120 million people.—Reuters