Burning fuel tanker
Agency Report/
A man had only one chance to save either his wife or their child today following a petrol-tanker accident in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
The tanker laden with petrol fell and caught fire claiming two lives and burning four vehicles at Iwo road area of Ibadan around 3:00 p.m.
An eyewitness, AbdulAzeez Hammed said he saw a man in one of the affected vehicles removing his child from the back of his wife when they saw the fire approaching their vehicle.
The witness said the husband and the child escaped while the fire caught the wife in the car and burnt her to death.
Oyo State police spokesman, SP Olugbenga Fadeyi, told NAN that two people lost their lives in the incident.
Fadeyi said four vehicles and two motorcycles were also burnt.
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