Petrol Tanker fire guts seven vehicles along Lagos-Badagry expressway
A petrol tanker spilt its content along the Lagos – Badagry road between Barracks and Onireke in Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos in the early hours of Tuesday causing a fire outbreak that consumed seven vehicles .
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the inferno , which began at about 5. 00am , destroyed the contents of a Mack trailer conveying crates of drinks from Intercontinental Breweries .
The fire gutted a station wagon Peugeot car, one Space bus, a Toyota Hummer jeep , a Mazda bus, a container conveying food products from Delta and an empty Mack trailer.
Mr Ja ’ faru Anka, a Senior Marshall Inspector of Federal Road Safety Corps , told NAN that he arrived at the scene few minutes after the fire started .
He said that seven vehicles were gutted by the fire , but no life was lost.
“ I arrived at the scene few minutes after 5. o0am and as you can see , I am working with my team to clear up terrific traffic build up.
An Army officer at the Ojo Barracks , who preferred to be anonymous , also said that the fire outbreak started by 5. 00am , while he was preparing for duty .
He said that the attention of the fire service was drawn to the situation and some firefighters were there , but ran out of water.
He said that they were still expecting more response from the fire service .
Some residents, who spoke with NAN, bemoaned the state of the road, which they said , had caused more harm than good to users.
Mr Folorunsho Dada , a resident of Onireke, said that apart from the fire outbreak, the road had caused untold hardship to commuters .
“ Just imagine in front of an Army barracks, there is no access road and this is the situation from the beginning of Alakija and even down to Agbara; this fire outbreak started around 5. 00am when that tanker spilt its content on the road and left through another route, ” he said .
( NAN)