One dead in Lagos tanker accident

No fewer than one person died in a petrol tanker accident that occurred at Mile 2 area of Lagos State.

The PUNCH gathered that a yet-to-be-identified female died in the accident.

A spokesperson for the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Nosa Okunbor, confirmed the incident on Friday.

He noted that emergency responders were at the scene of the incident.

“LASEMA Response Team is at Mile 2, inward the Nigerian Army Signal Barracks in recovery operation of a fully-loaded Oil Tanker conveying 55,000 litres of petrol involved in a lone accident which killed a female adult,” he added.

Details later…Punch