{"id":62133,"date":"2025-03-04T18:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62133"},"modified":"2025-03-04T18:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:25:14","slug":"16-die-in-abeokuta-shagamu-highway-gas-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/04\/16-die-in-abeokuta-shagamu-highway-gas-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Die in Abeokuta-Shagamu Highway Gas Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday afternoon&#8217;s gas explosion claimed the lives of 16 passengers in a lone accident at Buhari Estate, Kobape, along the Abeokuta-Shagamu Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) confirmed that the crash, which occurred around 1:00 p.m., involved a commercial bus (KJA 949 YJ) carrying 21 passengers.<\/p>\n<p>FRSC Public Education Officer, Florence Okpe, attributed the explosion to a gas-filled cylinder being transported in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>She disclosed that while three passengers survived with injuries, the other 16 were burnt beyond recognition.<\/p>\n<p>The injured victims were rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Idi Aba, Abeokuta, for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Sector Commander Akinwunmi Fasakin, who led the rescue efforts, lamented the avoidable nature of the tragedy, warning against the unsafe transport of gas cylinders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Tuesday afternoon&#8217;s gas explosion claimed the lives of 16 passengers in a lone accident at Buhari Estate, Kobape, along the Abeokuta-Shagamu Expressway. The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) confirmed that the crash, which occurred around 1:00 p.m., involved a commercial bus (KJA 949 YJ) carrying 21 passengers. FRSC Public Education Officer, Florence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62136,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62133\/revisions\/62136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}