Sorrow as petrol-laden tanker explodes in Ondo

Track News Nigeria reports that a petrol-laden tanker which fell and caught fire in ldanre Area of Ondo state has destroyed property worth millions of naira.

Our correspondent reports that the fire razed down a filling station and many houses last night.

Speaking with a nearby-resident, who doesn’t want his name to appear in the media, he explained that: “the tanker was at a filling station last night in to discharge the product into the underground tank of the filling station, through a big pipe when it caught fire,”

”The tanker arrived at that petrol station this evening and as the workers in the station were discharging the fuel inside it into the underground tank, suddenly the fire began.

”It burnt down the filling station completely and the house beside the station was also burnt. But later the firefighters arrived on the scene and put out the fire.”

When TrackNews contacted Funmi Odunlami, the state police spokesperson, the incident was confirmed the incident although there was no casualty in the inferno.

Odulami had said: ”The timely intervention of the men of the state fire service prevent the fire from causing more havoc.”