Nineteen people were killed and nine others injured when a truck slammed into a bus in southwestern Nigeria, police said Thursday. The truck driver ran away after the head-on collision on Wednesday near Akure, the capital of Ondo State, a state police spokesman said. \"Nineteen died on the spot, nine injured (were) rushed to state hospital,\" spokesman Adeniran Aremu said in a statement to AFP. The truck driver\'s apprentice was arrested, he said. Newspaper reports said he lost control of the vehicle while trying to avoid a pothole and it collided with the overloaded bus.
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