{"id":62631,"date":"2025-03-12T09:09:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T09:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62631"},"modified":"2025-03-12T09:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T09:09:17","slug":"lagos-tanker-explosion-two-dead-15-vehicles-burnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/12\/lagos-tanker-explosion-two-dead-15-vehicles-burnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos Tanker Explosion: Two Dead, 15 Vehicles Burnt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tanker explosion rocked Lagos late Tuesday night, leaving two people dead, four injured, and massive destruction in its wake.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around 10:30 p.m. on Otedola Bridge when a tanker, struggling to ascend the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway link road, lost control, overturned, and spilled its contents\u2014triggering an inferno.<\/p>\n<p>Flames engulfed at least 15 vehicles, including tricycles, and destroyed four buildings, several shops, and household properties.<\/p>\n<p>Conflicting reports emerged regarding casualties, with police confirming two deaths, while the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), reported one fatality.<\/p>\n<p>Mrgaret Adeseye, Director of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, revealed that the blaze also spread to a church and an adjoining bungalow, worsening the devastation.<\/p>\n<p>Panic gripped motorists as they scrambled to flee, with some abandoning their vehicles to escape the raging fire.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders remain on-site, assessing the full extent of the damage and continuing rescue efforts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62633\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20250312-WA0010-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20250312-WA0010-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20250312-WA0010.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Tanker explosion rocked Lagos late Tuesday night, leaving two people dead, four injured, and massive destruction in its wake. The incident occurred around 10:30 p.m. on Otedola Bridge when a tanker, struggling to ascend the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway link road, lost control, overturned, and spilled its contents\u2014triggering an inferno. Flames engulfed at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62631","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=62631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62634,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62631\/revisions\/62634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}