CARNAGE continued on the Nigerian roads this weekend when 61 people died in two separate accidents as buses plunged off bridges, witnesses and reports said. Forty-nine people were killed and 23 were recovering in hospital on Sunday after an overnight bus, travelling from Lagos to the northern city of Kano, blew a tyre and plunged into a river. On Saturday, 12 people died after a mini-bus hit a trailer on a bridge in Lagos and spun off into a canal, a local newspaper reported earlier. Nigeria’s roads are notorious for the high number of fatalities in accidents that occur because of the large number of poorly maintained vehicles, poor roads, bad driving and the overcrowding of cars and buses. – AFP