FIVE bodies have so far been recovered from the scene of last night’s tanker explosion on Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja, Lagos State, Commissioner for Special Duties, Tayo Bamgbose-Martins, has said.
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) had recovered three bodies earlier today.
But Bamgbose-Martins, while addressing reporters at the scene of the incident, said additional two persons have died.
According to him, three victims died at the scene while two died at the hospital.
Bamgbose-Martins said, “Lives were lost. We had about 13 people rescued but we understand that out of the 13 people, we’ve lost two of them which means that we’ve only rescued 11. We’ve recovered three bodies again this morning. They’ve started moving them away from here.”
Bamgbose-Martins also said that investigation is ongoing, adding that a special committee by the state government, which has agencies of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation as members, is working to end gas explosions in the state.
Similarly, the spokesman for the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Nosa Okunbor, confirmed that five persons lost their lives in the explosion which occurred around 11 pmm on Thursday.
Over 22 vehicles were burnt in the inferno that followed the explosion while the Ogun State Property & Investment Corporation Plaza was badly damaged.
