One person died and 15 others injured in a fuel tanker fire in Obalende area of Lagos on Thursday night.

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One person died and 15 others injured in a fuel tanker fire in Obalende area of Lagos on Thursday night.

One person died and 15 others injured in a fuel tanker fire in Obalende area of Lagos on Thursday night. The incident occurred when a tanker carrying 45,000 litres of Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) otherwise known as diesel, suddenly caught fire opposite a fuel station at the Obalende roundabout in Lagos Island. At least 30 vehicles were destroyed earlier in the week when a fuel station went up in flames in the Ifako-Ijaiye area of the state. The Director-General of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, who confirmed Thursday’s incident to journalists, said the situation has been brought under control. He said: “The agency received a distress call on the above incident concerning a 45, 000-litre capacity tanker loaded with PMS which was set ablaze having fallen on its side directly in front of a petrol station. “The agency’s officials and men of the Lagos State Fire Service and the Federal Fire Service battled to save the situation from causing ext…

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