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Fire In An Oil Tanker Kills Nine In Nigeria

Web Desk(June 29, 2018): An oil tanker truck caught fire in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos, killing nine people and burning out 53 other vehicles, an emergency agency official said.

Vehicles ablaze and thick black smoke billowing across a wide stretch of road.

The accident happened on a motorway that connects Lagos and the city of Ibadan, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency spokesman Adeshina Tiamiyu said. “Nine people are dead and four injured are in hospital”, Tiamiyu said.

A spokesman for the Federal Road Safety Commission, Bisi Kazeem, said the crash happened around Otedola bridge on the section of the road heading out of Lagos.

He said the cause of the accident was brake failure. He added that the tanker, five buses, two trucks, a tricycle and 45 cars were burnt out.