Mobil filling at Oba Akran/Ogba Junction, Ikeja in Lagos suffered a fire outbreak early on Wednesday morning, resulting in injury to one person and the burning of at least four vehicles.
The event began at exactly 6:05am as a tanker conveying 33,000 litres of petrol was punctured by an iron while attempting to navigate its way into the filling station.
According to eyewitnesses, scores of vehicles were in the queue leading to the entrance of the station when the tanker arrived at offload fuel, but the motorists in the queue would not give way, as each of them desperately wanted to maintain his/her position in the queue in order to get fuel on time.
It was while manoeuvring its way about the inadequate space at the entrance that an iron pierced the tanker and petrol began gushing out. The fastest of the motorists zoomed off to avert the looming fire, but the drivers of two buses and two cars were not fast enough, their vehicles were razed.
