Tragedy occurred early Friday morning at Ajegunle Bus-Stop, Alagbado, on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway as tanker loaded with petrol crashed and exploded killing scores of fuel scoopers in the process.
The sad incident happened around 3am.
It was gathered that several houses, among other properties were burnt in the inferno, as men of the state fire service and the police were deployed in the area.
An eyewitness said no one could tell the number of casualties as at the time of filling this report.
βWe cannot tell the number of those that died. The police and fire service have been working and trying to put out the fire.β
A trader with a shop in the area said some residents who attempted to scoop fuel were killed.
βI have a shop here. I was called that the fire started around 3am, but by the time I got here, my shop had been razed.
βWhen the fuel started pouring down the canal, some people tried to scoop fuel. By the time the explosion happened, many of them were trapped and killed.β
