By Nneka Nwogwugwu
Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, (LASEMA) have discovered five unidentified bodies from the gas tanker explosion which occurred around midnight at Maryland, inward Ikeja area.
Other victims also sustained different degree of burns, while few are currently battling for survival as they are receiving medical attention at emergency wards of General Hospital.
Director-General, LASEMA Dr Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, confirmed the deaths recovered so far.
According to Oke-Osanyintolu, “On arrival of the Tiger officials at scene of the incident, it was discovered that a gas tanker was on fire as a result of explosion while the gas tanker was moving inward ikeja.
An eyewitness who spoke to the Vanguard, the inferno which occurred around 12 midnight at Ikeja, infront of Sheraton and Opic plaza, was later put out by men of the Lagos- State Fire Rescue Services and men of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Nigerian Police and other emergency responders.
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