Nigeria, July 16 -- Eleven passengers were killed after a commercial bus travelling along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway slammed into a stationary truck and burst into flames early Wednesday, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has said.

The crash, at about 5:39 a.m. at Maraban Isa, near Jere in Kaduna State, involved a white Fiat Ducato commercial bus and a MAN diesel truck that had developed a mechanical fault and was parked on the shoulder of the highway.

The Kaduna Sector Commander of the FRSC, Andrew Longkam, through the command's Public Relations Officer, said preliminary findings showed that excessive speed caused the collision.

"The truck had developed a mechanical fault and was already parked off the road," Mr Longkam said.

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