Many injured as fire guts NNPC Ibadan depot
About seven persons were wounded on Wednesday when fire razed a Nigerian National Petroleum Company depot situated at Apata area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
Our correspondent reports that a section of the loading point was completely damaged by fire, while three petrol tankers were also burnt.that one of the persons injured, simply identified as Moji, ”was caught in the raging fire, and sustained severe burns”. The immediate cause of the inferno could not be ascertained, but a source attributed the afternoon fire to an electrical surge which sparked the fire.
“I was there when one of the tanker drivers was removing his battery and using another truck’s battery to kick start his truck.“It was when he put the battery and was hitting the head of the battery, trying to fix it, that fire sparked from the battery and the next thing we saw was fire, trapping everyone available,” he said.The fire, which lasted for about two hours, was, however, extinguished by the Oyo Fire Services and officials of the NNPC.
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