Scores of people have been reported dead as a tanker loaded with petrol crashed and exploded at Ajegunle Bus-Stop, Alagbado, on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway in the wee hours of Friday (today).
Many houses were also said to have been burnt among several other property, caused by the inferno.
Men of the state fire service and the police, as well as National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) officials have been drafted to the scene, First News gathered.
A resident, Samuel Adeyemo, a lawyer, who spoke with journalists, said no one could tell the number of casualties.
“We cannot tell the number of those that died. The police and fire service have been working and trying to put out the fire,” he disclosed
Another resident revealed that most of those who died in the fire were residents who attempted to scoop fuel from the crashed tanker.
“I have a shop here. I was called that the fire started around 3am, but by the time I got here, my shop had been razed.
“When the fuel started pouring down the canal, some people tried to scoop fuel. By the time the explosion happened, many of them were trapped and killed,” the man lamented.