NGF urges safety measures in transportation of combustible materials

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has called for greater attraction to information measures and regulations successful the proscription of combustible materials crossed the country.

This is contained successful a condolence connection by the forum’s Chairman, Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, to the Niger Government, aft a tanker detonation successful the Katcha Local Government Area of the state.

The forum condoled with the people, families of the victims and Gov. Mohammed Bago. It besides commended exigency responders for their humanitarian assistance to the victims.

NAN reports that the Director of Information of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency, NSEMA, Dr Ibrahim Hussaini, confirmed the incident, saying, “Our men are connected the crushed for hunt and rescue operations.”

“So acold our men person confirmed that 35 radical person been burnt to decease and 40 others injured,” Hussaini said, adding that the injured person been rushed to Bida and Lapai General Hospital.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the authorities Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), A’isha Sa’adu, confirmed that nary less than 35 persons died successful the petrol tanker explosion.

She said the calamity happened erstwhile immoderate residents attempted to scoop substance from the fallen tanker, which aboriginal exploded.

According to her, 46 others sustained assorted degrees of injuries and were evacuated to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Bida, with the enactment of FRSC personnel, villagers, and immoderate bully Samaritans.

Sa’adu explained that preliminary investigations indicated that the mishap was a lone clang resulting from nonaccomplishment of power by the tanker driver.

She cautioned motorists to workout utmost attraction and adhere to postulation regulations to debar unnecessary nonaccomplishment of lives.

The assemblage commandant besides warned members of the nationalist against scooping substance from mishap scenes, describing it arsenic a unsafe enactment that had claimed galore lives successful the past.  (NAN)

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