Tanker Explosion: 30 burnt to death while scooping fuel in Niger State; 40 injured

By Wole Mosadomi, Minna

Minna – No less than 30 radical were burnt beyond designation portion scooping petrol from a fallen tanker successful Niger State. At slightest 40 others sustained varying degrees of injuries successful the tragic incident.

The detonation occurred astir 11 a.m. connected Monday astatine Essan and Badeggi communities on the Bida–Agaie Road successful Katcha Local Government Area.

An eyewitness told our analogous that the victims were trapped arsenic they rushed to cod substance leaking from the crashed tanker.

“While they were scooping the product, the tanker abruptly exploded, burning galore beyond recognition. The injured were rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Bida, for treatment,” the root said.

Confirming the incident, the Chairman of the Niger State Tanker Drivers Association and NUPENG National Ex-Officio, Comrade Farouk Mohammed Kawo, said the tanker was en way from Lagos to bluish Nigeria erstwhile the mishap occurred.

“Within this period alone, implicit 30 tanker trailers person been progressive successful accidents successful that peculiar country owed to the deplorable information of the road,” Kawo said.

“We person ever warned people, particularly the youth, astir the dangers of scooping substance during specified incidents, but they won’t listen. Just past Sunday, a tanker carrying groundnut lipid besides crashed there, and residents rushed to cod the contents.”

He appealed to the Federal Government to urgently hole the Bida–Agaie–Lapai Road, describing it arsenic a decease trap liable for predominant tanker accidents and nonaccomplishment of lives.

Meanwhile, Governor Muhammed Umaru Bago has expressed heavy condolences to the radical of Essa successful Katcha Local Government Area implicit the tragedy.

In a connection issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Bologi Ibrahim, the politician described the incidental arsenic “worrisome, unfortunate, and pathetic.”

“It is disheartening that radical inactive attack fallen tankers to scoop substance contempt repeated warnings and sensitization. People indispensable larn to worth their lives supra worldly gain,” the politician said.

He commended the Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA) for its swift effect and assured that the authorities authorities would supply indispensable enactment to victims and their families.

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