One dead, 3 injured in multiple gas trucks explosion
AN unidentified person was burnt to death, and three others are currently in hospital, following gas explosion, involving three vehicles with Liquified Petroleum Gas, LPG, at GM Julee gas station, Anibaba in Iba New Site, by Iyana School-Isashi Road, Iba, Lagos. The incident, it was gathered, happened about 10pm Tuesday night. It was gathered that the fire involved three LPG gas trucks of different storage capacity, and a security post in the plant premises. It was learned that the fire emanated from one of the trucks, while discharging its contents into the plant surface storage tank before it burst into flames. According to Director, Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Mrs. Magaret Adeseye, “a male adult suffered severe burns beyond recognition in one of the trucks and was recovered dead. “While three other male adults were reportedly rescued with varying degrees of burn injuries and taken to nearby hospital on arrival of the state emergency responders.” Other rescu...