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Inferno from the explosion
There was pandemonium at the ever busy UNIZIK Junction in Awka, Anambra State capital following a tanker explosion that rocked the area on Thursday.
The fire consumed a car parked by the side of the fuel station, two motorcycles and an overhead water tank.
A side of the administrative building of the fuel station was razed while two generators belonging to the station were equally torched.
The Director/Fire Chief of the fire service, Dr Martin Agbili, an engineer, confirmed that there was no casualty in the inferno.
“From the discussions and what we gathered from the scene, the tanker was being discharged of petroleum product which we suspected to be PMS and that was during the intensity of the sun.
“There was every tendency that something like that might have happened; and from there fire emanated,” he explained.
(Daily Sun)
