Seventeen lives have been lost while 17 others sustained varying injuries in separate road crashes in Bauchi.

The Federal Road Safety Corps in Azare and Gamawa command stated that one of the incidents occurred on Monday.

The other crash at Manaba on Zaki-Gamawa road involved 25, killing 11 people and 13 seriously wounded.

A commercial passenger vehicle with plate number KTG 13 XF, a Toyota bus belonging to Himma Express, had a tyre blowout before crashing.

The second crash, which claimed six lives, occurred Tuesday afternoon on the Yana-Giade road.