Ambulance carrying corpse of Priest’s mother engulfed by fire (PHOTOS)

An ambulance carrying Ms. Onyemata‘s body mother of Father Alex Onyemata, a Nigerian Catholic priest serving in the Catholic Diocese, served under Okigwe was said to have been burned by the fire over the weekend, while on the way to Mercy Mortuary, in the community of Umulogho in Obowo, Imo State.

Eyewitnesses claim that on Saturday, 11 January, at Owerri-Umuahia expressway, family members and other mourners had rescued the corpse from the fire incident that was triggered by petrol leakage.

The corpse was subsequently carried in a stretcher to the mortuary by the mourners who were forced to walk.