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  • Many feared dead as tanker explodes in Enugu (video)

    Many feared dead as tanker explodes in Enugu (video)

    Many people have been feared dead and others injured when a petrol tanker fell and caught fire along Ugwu Onyeama between Enugu and 9th Mile.

    In the video that surfaced on social media, captured many vehicles going up in flames while men of the State Fire Service battle to extinguish the raging flame.

    It is not yet ascertained the number of the dead, but at least seven vehicles and a Keke were burnt beyond recognition.

    A voice in the video was heard asking for prayers for the dead. It added that some people in vehicles that fell inside a nearby gully are unaccounted for.

    Watch video below;

     

  • Tanker explosion rocks filling station in Nasarawa

    Tanker explosion rocks filling station in Nasarawa

    No fewer than six persons have sustained various injuries when a petroleum tanker exploded on Monday at Sandaji Filling Station in Lafia, Nasarawa State.

    The tanker which brought petroleum product to the filling station located at Jos Road Lafia, exploded around 12:00 p.m.

    Comfort Igwe, a pump attendant at the station said that the explosion occurred while the tanker was discharging its product.

    She said it took the intervention of men of the fire service in collaboration with Red Cross Society, police and other security agencies to quench the fire and return normalcy to the area.

    The explosion also destroyed property worth millions of naira at the filling station, the eye witness said.

    The eye witness explained that some staff members of the filling station and official of Nasarawa State Fire Service sustained injury and are receiving treatments at the Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital, Lafia.

    Mr Ombugu Joshua, Acting Director, Nasarawa State Fire Service said the command was yet to ascertain the cause of the outbreak.

    He advised residents to always alert the service on time whenever they experience fire outbreak for prompt response.

  • Petrol tanker explodes as fire engulfs petrol station in Onitsha

    Petrol tanker explodes as fire engulfs petrol station in Onitsha

    A fire outbreak on Sunday evening devastated a petrol station near Boromeo roundabout in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra.

    A resident who witnessed the incident said that a petrol-laden tanker exploded and burst into flames while waiting to have the fuel discharged.

    The eye witness said that heavy traffic on Awka Road in the city delayed the arrival of fire fighters who later battled to contain the raging inferno.

    Meanwhile, DSP Toochukwu Ikenga, Spokesman of the Anambra Police Command has confirmed the incident.

    He said that police personnel attached to the Inland Town Divisional Headquarters, Onitsha arrived the scene and cordoned it off to prevent hoodlums from taking advantage of the incident to loot.

    Ikenga said preliminary investigation revealed that the truck caught fire inside the fuel station while awaiting to have its content offloaded.

    He said the cause of the explosion, extent of damage and number of casualties have yet to be ascertained.

  • Update: 5 feared dead as petrol tanker burns on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

    Update: 5 feared dead as petrol tanker burns on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

    The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Ogun Sector Command, says five people died in the early hours of Wednesday as a petrol tanker burst into flames on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

    The state Sector Commander, Mr Ahmed Umar, confirmed this in a statement he issued to newsmen in Abeokuta.

    Umar said that the accident occurred at 4:46 a.m near Tunji Alegi Filling Station, Kwakyama area, Ogere.

    He said that the cause of the accident could be wrongful overtaking and dangerous driving on the part of the petrol tanker driver.

    According to him, the tanker collided with a moving truck, resulting in the fire.

    The sector commander said that the bodies of the dead were recovered from one of the crashed trucks and were burnt beyond recognition.

    He added that they had been deposited at a morgue in Ipara.

    “The FRSC wishes to inform the motoring public of the fire incident on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway which occurred in the early hours of today, involving a petrol tanker laden with Premuim Motors Spirit around Tunji Alegi Filling Station, Kwakyama Area of Ogere.

    “This development calls for caution as the spill has affected some other vehicles parked at the shoulder of the road,’’ he said.

    Umar said that five vehicles were involved in the inferno, and urged motorists to cooperate with traffic managers to reduce hours spent in traffic.

    He also said that fire fighters at Sagamu, Police Traffic Division at Ogere and Gateway Police Station, Old Tollgate, Ogere, had been contacted.

    He said that traffic had been diverted to avoid more crashes and further loss of lives and property on the road.

    Umar advised motorists to take alternative routes.

  • Petrol tanker explodes in Sierra Leone, over 91 killed

    Petrol tanker explodes in Sierra Leone, over 91 killed

    Ninety-one people were killed and over 100 wounded in the capital of Sierra Leone on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, the central morgue and local authorities said.

    The government has not yet confirmed the death toll, but the manager of the central state morgue in Freetown said it had received 91 bodies following the explosion.

    A further 100 casualties have been admitted for treatment at hospitals and clinics across the capital, deputy health minister Amara Jambai told Reuters.

    Victims included people who had flocked to collect fuel leaking from the ruptured vehicle, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of the port city, said initially in a post on Facebook that was later edited to remove the reference.

    “We’ve got so many casualties, burnt corpses,” said Brima Bureh Sesay, head of the National Disaster Management Agency, in a video from the scene shared online. “It’s a terrible, terrible accident.”

    Images shared widely online showed several badly burned victims lying on the streets as fire blazed through shops and houses nearby. Reuters was not able immediately to verify the images.

    Accidents with tanker trucks in Sub-Saharan Africa have previously killed scores of people who gathered at the site to collect spilled fuel and were hit by secondary blasts.

    In 2019, a tanker explosion in eastern Tanzania killed 85 people, while around 50 people were killed in a similar disaster in Democratic Republic of Congo in 2018.

    The mayor said that the extent of the damage in Freetown was not yet clear, adding that police and her deputy were at the scene to assist disaster management officials.

    “My profound sympathies with families who have lost loved ones and those who have been maimed as a result,” President Julius Maada Bio tweeted.

    “My Government will do everything to support affected families.”

  • JUST IN: Petrol tanker crushes 15 pupils of Army Day School in Delta State

    JUST IN: Petrol tanker crushes 15 pupils of Army Day School in Delta State

    Not fewer than 15 pupils of the Army Day Secondary School, Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State have been crushed to death by a petrol tanker.

    According to reports, the students were returning from school around 3:30 pm Thursday when the tanker loaded with petroleum product crushed the students to death while others still alive were taken to the Army Hospital, Effurun Barracks for medical attention.

    The accident, it was learnt occurred opposite the General David Ejoor’s Barracks of the Nigerian Army in Effurun, close to Warri.

  • Petrol tanker explodes in Lagos, Ogun border town

    Petrol tanker explodes in Lagos, Ogun border town

    A petrol-laden tanker has exploded at Ajayi Farm Bus-Stop along the Alagbole-Akute Road in Ogun State.

    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that Alagbole-Akute is a border community between Lagos and Ogun states.

    Sources said the incident occurred very early on Saturday morning at the retail station of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in the area.

    According to eye witness accounts, the tanker had come to the NNPC facility to supply petrol.

    According to eyewitness account, the truck was discharging its content before the incident occurred.

    The witness who does not want to be name said the truck had off-loaded its first compartment and while discharging the content in its second compartment, there was a spark at the underground storage tank.

    In the process, the storage tank was gutted by fire and melted the hose being used to off-load the content of the truck.

    In a bid to prevent the inferno from causing more damage, the driver of the truck was said to have jumped into the vehicle and moved it to the road, away from the filling station where the tanker exploded moments later.

    Witnesses said the fire started at about 6:45am while the firefighters were immediately contacted, and they arrived at the scene at about 7:23am.

    No injury or death was recorded as a result of the incident.

    Meanwhile the firefighters seen at the scene were officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA).

    Officials of the Federal Fire Service were also said to have arrived at the scene of the incident shortly after the fire had been put out.

  • Driver absconds after petrol tanker falls, spills content on Lagos road

    Driver absconds after petrol tanker falls, spills content on Lagos road

    A petrol tanker has fallen around the Sunrise area of Tincan, in Lagos State, spilling its content on the ground with the driver of the vehicle at large.

    Confirming the incident on Friday via Twitter, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), said agency response team and other responders are firmly on the ground to curtail any secondary incident.

    “Efforts are ongoing by the owners of the tanker to transload the remaining contents; however the driver Of the tanker has fled the scene, therefore, making it difficult to locate the owners,” LASEMA said.

    “Officials of NUPENG are doing everything within their purview to facilitate the transloading. The agency response team and other responders are firmly on the ground to curtail any secondary incident.”

    The truck was said to have upturned after the driver rammed into a pothole around 7.30 am, and the content being conveyed to a destination in the state, spilt on the road.

     

  • Petrol tanker explodes on Kara Bridge [VIDEO]

    Petrol tanker explodes on Kara Bridge [VIDEO]

    Reports reaching TheNewsGuru.com, TNG has it that a fuel-laden tanker has gone up in flames at the Kara end of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

    The cause of the fire was not sure as at the time of filing this report.

    However, eyewitness account on social media confirmed the fire began as early as 1 am on Saturday without firefighters in sight

    Many motorists travelling out of Lagos were held in traffic.

    Some vehicles had been trapped in the inferno.

    Some motorists have also resorted to driving against traffic in order to avoid gridlock.

  • Petrol tanker catches fire in front of Ogun Governor’s Office

    Petrol tanker catches fire in front of Ogun Governor’s Office

    A truck loaded with about 50,000 litres of petroleum was on Saturday gutted by fire in front of Ogun State Governor’s Office, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.

    According to reports, the tanker was coming from Ijora, Lagos State, en route to Adatan, in Abeokuta metropolis.

    The driver, who identified himself as Nurudeen Yusuf, told newsmen that he, alongside his two motorboys, discovered a spark from the engine, which resulted in the fire outbreak.

    The leader of the Federal Fire Service at the scene, Sodiq Atanda, said it took the timely intervention of his men to put out the fire.

    Atanda said, “If not for the proximity of our station and the timely intervention of our men, this situation would have been worse.”

    He, however, lamented that the truck did not have a fire extinguisher.