No fewer than eleven people have been confirmed dead following a petrol tanker that exploded on Saturday night at Molete, Ibadan,
while 16 others have been admitted at the intensive care unit of the University College Hospital, Ibadan
Central Hospital and Immaculate
Hospital, Ibadan respectively.
10 dead bodies were confirmed by the movie attendant.
“We got 10 corpses which included children and adults.”
The inferno which spread from
Molete roundabout to Bode area of
Ibadan lasted from about 8 pm Saturday night till about 3am, on Sunday before the Oyo State Fire
Service and well-meaning Nigerians
could control the raging fire.
“I
saw the tanker driver shouting but there was nothing anyone could do because there was traffic at that axis. A crowd watched in amazement as a man gave a sordid account of how he and others narrowly escaped being killed after they were trapped by the fire.
“all of us that went in the same direction were terrified and running as fast as we could but we could
not outrun the fire. It was chasing us but at the same time, we could also see it in front of us. At a point, I felt the fire crawling up my back, but I kept running.
All I know is that, eventually, I got to a
place where I didn’t see the fire again."
Details later
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