{"id":63040,"date":"2025-03-19T19:51:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T19:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63040"},"modified":"2025-03-19T19:51:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T19:51:53","slug":"tanker-explosion-rocks-abuja-scores-feared-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/19\/tanker-explosion-rocks-abuja-scores-feared-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanker Explosion Rocks Abuja, Scores Feared Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fuel tanker explosion near Karu Bridge in Nyanya, Abuja, has left many feared dead after the vehicle lost control and crashed, triggering a massive inferno.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said the tanker, reportedly carrying both liquid fuel and compressed natural gas cylinders, suffered brake failure and slammed into multiple vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The impact caused a series of powerful explosions, sending fireballs and shrapnel soaring hundreds of meters into the air.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw the tanker speeding uncontrollably before it crashed. Within seconds, there was an explosion, and fire spread everywhere,&#8221; a survivor recounted.<\/p>\n<p>Panic gripped the area as people ran for safety, with several vehicles instantly engulfed in flames, trapping occupants inside.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders, including firefighters and medical teams, arrived swiftly to battle the blaze and assist victims.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have yet to confirm the number of casualties, but fears of heavy loss of life remain high due to the intensity of the explosions.<\/p>\n<p>The fire also caused extensive damage to nearby structures and vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Fuel tanker explosion near Karu Bridge in Nyanya, Abuja, has left many feared dead after the vehicle lost control and crashed, triggering a massive inferno. Eyewitnesses said the tanker, reportedly carrying both liquid fuel and compressed natural gas cylinders, suffered brake failure and slammed into multiple vehicles. The impact caused a series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63040","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=63040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63043,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63040\/revisions\/63043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}