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Not less than 100 vehicles and unknown number of persons have been roasted in multiple explosions that occurred from fuel tankers at the Eleme section of the East-West Road in Rivers State.<\/p>\n
The incident, which reportedly occurred late night Friday left many travelers stranded.<\/p>\n
It was learnt that a tanker laden with petroleum products exploded and burst into flames that spread to other tankers and many other vehicles trapped in a gridlock.<\/p>\n
Though the number of victims could not be ascertained, but sources said many people trapped in their vehicles were roasting by the inferno.<\/p>\n
Sources blamed the incident on dangerous driving and the company handling the reconstruction of the Eleme section of the road.<\/p>\n
The fire was said to have raged for hours but was later put out by many fire service trucks with support from the Indoroma Petrochemical.<\/p>\n
A source said he heard a deafening sound twice from his residence with voices shouting for help.<\/p>\n
The source said: \u201cI heard a very loud sound about 20 minutes ago, and people were shouting.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sound came from the Petro-Chemical company area. So when I came out I saw a tick smoke with fire from a distance.\u201d<\/p>\n
A resident of Port Harcourt, Segun Owolabi said: \u201cI saw four dead bodies burnt. Some may have been in the bushes because many ran away. I saw a whole stretch of vehicles burnt down, trailer burnt down.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere seems to be a truck carrying substances and it was as if it had collision with another vehicle that may have ignited the fire. Over 20 vehicles burnt down and several people trapped.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere may be more bodies. Oh my God this is a tragedy. A stretch of vehicles burnt\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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