A petroleum tanker with 33,000 liters of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol, exploded in Ibadan on Thursday.
According to report, the explosion occured at Celica junction, along the new ife expressway in Ibadan.
Passerbys who witnessed the incident said that the explosion occured because the vehicle lost control after experiencing a break failure.
One of the passerbys said “The tanker hit a Prado jeep and another car. And in the process, the tanker fell and exploded.
“Although no casualty was recorded, the fire affected the car and the Prado jeep.”
The state fire service chairman of Ibadan, Maroof Akinwande, while confirming the incident to newsmen added that no casualty was recorded.
Maroof said, “The incident was reported at exactly 18.27hrs on Thursday.
“The firemen swiftly swung into action by applying chemical foam compound and restricted the fire from spreading to the nearby Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation petrol station and surrounding properties. The fire was jointly extinguished with officers from the Federal Fire Service.
“The fire incident was as a result of failure of breaking in system of the truck whist on motion which made the vehicle lose control, hit a Prado jeep and a car, then fell and caught fire.
“No casualty was recorded but the fire affected the trailer tanker and a car, while a Jeep was hit by the trailer into the nearby gutter,” he explained.
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