4 injured as fire guts filing station in Badagry
Four persons, sustained injuries as fire gutted Fat Noble Filling Station, an independent marketing oil firm along Old Road, opposite Torikoh, Badagry, Lagos. It was gathered that attendants were dispensing petrol inside jerry cans and sacks around 1.00.a.m at the back of the station when the explosion occurred. According to a source, those who sustained injury were quickly rushed to General Hospital in Badagry before the arrival of fire service men. “They are selling fuel which is to be smuggled out of the country immediately when there was an explosion. “The fire destroyed some part of the station before the arrival of the men of the Lagos Fire Service. “Those who suffered fatal injury were taken to the hospital, while those with minor injuries were treated within,” the source said. Meanwhile, Mr Isaac Dossa, the Station Head, Badagry Fire Service, Lagos said they received an emergency call at 1:15 a.m. about the incident and they proceeded to the scene immediately. “We got to the sc...