A petrol-laden tanker has exploded at Ajegunle Bus-Stop, around Alagbado, on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, early hours of Friday.
It was gathered that the explosion woke the Lagos subrub residents from their sleep. The blast burnt nearby houses and shops.
A resident of the area told PREMIUM TIMES in a telephone interview that the incident occurred around 3 ‘o clock in the morning.
Emergency officials, including firefighters from the Lagos State Fire Service, are said to have arrived the scene battling to put out the fire as at the time of filing this report.
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