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Just In: 10 Dead, Several Injured As Petrol Tanker Catches Fire In Jos

 


A petrol tanker caught fire at the Bauchi junction, Farin Gada axis Jos North local government area of Plateau State killing about 10 people while many others sustained various degrees of injuries.

Among the injured were some personnel of the Federal Road Road Safety Corps FRSC, motorists, pedestrians, and business people who were in the busy vicinity at the time of the incident. Some vehicles and tricycles were also burnt as a result of the incident.

However, some security personnel escaped being lynched by irate youths who were angered by their alleged late arrival. Two personnel of the FRSC were injured while one of their vehicles got burnt.


The State Fire Service department was yet to respond to calls to the known phone number but the State Police Command through its spokesman, Alfred Alabo said, “The Command received information from a good Samaritan that a tanker conveying Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) lost control, crashed and burst in flames along Bauchi Road Junction in Jos.


On receipt of the tragic incident, the Commissioner of Police, CP Bartholomew Onyeka, directed the Angwan Rogo Divisional Police Officer and his team of detectives to move to the scene of the accident immediately. Upon their arrival it was discovered that 10 yet-to-be-identified persons were burnt beyond recognition. Their lifeless bodies were later deposited at Plateau Specialist Hospital, Jos, while three (3) Motor vehicles and two (2) tricycles affected by the fire were recovered from the scene.


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