LAGOS TANKER EXPLOSION KILLS PREGNANT WOMAN AND DRIVER

It was a sad wednesday in Lagos as a 33,000 litre truck exploded claiming lives and injuring many. A pregnant woman and driver were burnt to ashes. The sad incident happened at the Barracks bus-stop, along the Lagos- Badagry expressway. The accident destroyed six vehicles and goods worth millions of naira.

The incident produced several casualties. A female victim, who sustained severe burns from the resultant fire, still hung in the balance, as doctors at a private hospital around Onireke, were battling to resuscitate her alongside six other victims, who sustained varying degrees of burns.

The incident happened around 4a.m. reports had it that the truck which was heading inward Iyana-Oba, somersaulted while trying to navigate a failed portion of the expressway at Barracks Bus Stop, spilling its content on the on the road and igniting. One of the vehicles affected by the fire was a truck which was conveying fire generating sets.

The pregnant woman who was burnt ashes happened to be a trader, she was in a cab loaded with cartoons of frozen fish. She was burnt alongside the driver.

The accident brought traffic on the ever-busy expressway to a halt, forcing commuters to come down from public vehicles and trek across the scene of the accident to continue their journey.