No fewer than 10 persons have been placed on danger list in hospitals in Nkpor in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State near Onitsha following Friday evening fire that gutted a petrol filling station at Nkpor Junction.
The inferno, according to the source, stated at about 5 p.m. while two tankers, one loaded with petrol and the other with kerosine, were off-loading their products into an under-ground tanks inside the station.
At press time, the actual cause of the inferno was yet to be ascertained.
One report had it that the fire sparked when one of those discharging the products picked a phone call, while another said the inferno was ignited by a spark from a high tension wire when electricity supply suddenly came up as the products were being discharged.
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