ALERT: Fuel tanker explodes in Lagos after crashing into car
A fuel tanker exploded after colliding with a car in Lagos on Monday afternoon.
LASEMA said the tanker belonging to Bovas Petroleum was carrying 33,000 litres of diesel.
It was heading inward Charity bus stop in Oshodi when the collision occurred.
“This subsequently led to the spillage of the entire content (diesel) thereby leading to the inferno,” LASEMA spokesperson Kehinde Adebayo told Newsroom on Monday.
“But no life was lost,” he said.
It could had been another story had the tanker been carrying petrol.
LASEMA is clearing the area as we speak.
The crash occurred at Toyota Junction, Ladipo bus stop, Oshodi Apapa Expressway (Inwards Oshodi Outward Mile 2).
