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Kara Explosion: FRSC Recover One Dead, Two Injured Victims
The rescue operations of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has recovered one dead, and two injured bodies at the scene of Sunday’s tanker explosion at Kara Bridge, along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The FRSC Lagos State Sector Commander Mr. Olusegun Ogungbemide, in a statement, said that two injured persons had been moved to the hospital.
He said, “We have been able to take two casualties to the General Hospital, Gbagadaa. Also, one person was burnt beyond recognition.
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“The accident involved three tankers and one truck of which two of the tankers were carrying petrol, another carrying gas, and the other an articulated truck.”
Ogungbemide, who promised to investigate the cause of the explosion, said so far, observations revealed that one of the tankers lost control and rammed into others, which resulted in the explosion.
“It was a loss of control. One of the tankers that rammed into other vehicles either had brake failure or got distracted.
”An investigation is still on, and we can’t just be accurate now,” he added.
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