A tanker explosion occurred in Ibadan, claiming the life of the driver and leaving another person injured. The incident happened around Fijabi House, Agbowo, along the Ojoo/Iwo Road Expressway in the early hours of Wednesday.
Mr. Yemi Akinyinka, the General Manager of the Oyo State Fire Services Agency, confirmed the event in a statement shared with journalists.
He explained that the tanker, loaded with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), lost control and collided with two other trucks before flipping into a nearby pit. This led to a massive fire outbreak.
“The incident happened around Fijabi House, Agbowo, Ojoo/Iwo Road Expressway.
“The agency received a distress call about the fire incident at exactly 2.45 a.m. through a telephone call.
“The service swiftly deployed personnel to the scene and curtailed the fire from spreading to the nearby residential area.
“On arrival, we met three trucks of 20-metre distance from one another involved in the fire incident,
“The driver was burnt to death while the motor boy was rescued alive and taken to the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, for treatment,” he said.
Akinyinka stressed that the tanker was utterly destroyed by the fire while the other two trucks were rescued by the agency’s personnel.
“The agency’s Director of Operations, Mr Ismail Adeleke with team members, the police, and some other security agencies were at the scene to prevent a breakdown of law and order,” he said.
