Two persons were on Thursday burnt to death, three injured while 12 vehicles were also affected in an early morning tanker explosion at Ilo Awela area of Sango Toll gate on the Lagos -Abeokuta expressway.
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) confirmed that the incident occurred in the early hours of today, leaving three persons with burns, and two dead.
FRSC spokesperson in Ogun, Florence Okpe, told newsmen that the tanker was ascending the Ilo Awele slope, adjoining the Abeokuta-Lagos section of the expressway, when it fell around 1:30am, spilled its content and went up in flames.
Okpe said: “Men of the fire service were contacted immediately and the area was cordoned off to prevent a secondary crash.”
