Diesel Tanker Explodes Along Oshodi-Apapa Expressway

A diesel fuel tanker has smashed and blasted into blazes at the Ladipo end of the Oshodi-Apapa road in Lagos State, South-West Nigeria.

The consuming tanker has been retching thick tufts of dark smoke into the air in the area.

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A roadside mechanic who witnessed the accident disclosed to Channels Television that a school bus loaded with pupils barely got away from the blast.

Another witness said the tanker driver was driving at a very high speed when he lost control and veered off the street, hitting a duct with the vehicle said to conveying over 3,000 liters of diesel and burst into flares on effect.

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Fire trucks of the Lagos Fire Service apparently arrived sooner than required on the scene, however depleted their supply of water without putting out the fire.

It took the arrival of a second fire truck to quench the flares.

The episode, which happened on Monday, is said to have created a monstrous gridlock on both sides of the turnpike.