A
fuel tanker was reported to have lost control and somersaulted and rammed into
several buildings setting off huge fire balls that consumed some twenty
shops and 7 residential buildings.
Three
people were burnt beyond recognition as a petrol tanker fell and caught fire at
Maje Village near Abuja.
The
tragedy occurred this morning. Several shops and residential buildings were
destroyed by the fire.
An
eyewitness said that the two occupants of the tanker and a woman who came out
to collect her child were roasted to death.
Also
an electricity transformer as well as properties worth thousands of naira were
destroyed in the inferno. Three people sustained varying degree of injuries and
were rushed to the hospital.
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