Ogun Tanker Explosion: Nine Burnt To Death — TRACE Confirms

AJILETE — No fewer than nine passengers (male) was reported to have burnt to death in the tanker explosion involving a loaded truck with Petroleum Motor Spirit PMS (number plate not displayed, burnt beyond recognition), A ford bus loaded with eggs and four (4) motorcycles (Number plates not displayed) in Odo Seje,

Ajilete, Owode/Idiroko road under Yewa South local government, Ogun State.

According to eye eyewitness, the loaded tanker detached from it's tractor while descending Odo Seje slope from Owode, the bus was coming from Ajilete with other motorcycles and ram into it then gutted fire.

Accidented vehicles/motorcycles pushed to the shoulder of the road by the men of Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agencies TRACE, led by AKINTOYE A. M, while the the truck is still burning in bush at a low pase.

The Accidental vehicles were successfully removed from the road. Trafic was affected but normalcy has returned.

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