Ten persons have been burnt to death when a truck carrying Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) burst into flame between the Conoil filling station and Sagamu interchange corridor of the Lagos – Ibadan expressway.
The accident, which occurred some minutes after 9;00am, affected four other vehicles on its track, including a truck marked AKL198ZT, an unmarked Iveco truck, Mazda bus with registration number FFE361XB and two other unmarked trucks including a Howo truck.
It was learnt that the Iveco truck, which lost control due to speed, smashed into the truck carrying PMS, rupturing a part of its tank and triggering the explosion.
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The fire outbreak caught a Mazda bus by the expressway and engulfed it with passengers.
Florence Okpe, the Federal Road Safety Corps(FRSC) Superintendent Route Commander and Public Education Officer for Sector Commander, Umar Ahmed, FRSC Ogun Sector Command, attributed the cause to excessive speed.
She said the charred bodies of the victims have been taken to Olabisi Obasanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu while some of the burnt vehicles were towed off the road leaving the tankers for the fuel content to be transloaded.
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