Breaking: Many Vehicles Trapped As Oil Tanker Explodes At Otedola Bridge, Lagos

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A fuel tanker is currently on fire around Otedola bridge, by Berger along Lagos Ibadan Expressway, The New Diplomat gathered.

 

Scores of vehicles are trapped in the inferno while Men of Lagos State Emergency Management Authority, Fire Services, and the police are on ground to rescue the situation.

Vehicles are advised to avoid that route as the fire is yet to be stopped.

'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline.

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