Properties worth millions of naira were destroyed in Idanre community in Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State on Saturday night when a tanker carrying petrol overturned and caught fire.
Africhome Team gathered that the fire razed down a filling station and a building beside was also affected.
However no life was reportedly lost in the incident but property in the fuel station and the building beside it were burnt beyond recognition.
According to an eyewitness, the tanker carried Premium Motor Spirit also know as petrol, was at a filling station in the community to transmit into the underground tank of the filling station through a big pipe when it caught fire.
The eyewitness said, ” The tanker arrived that petrol station this evening and as the workers in the station were transferring the fuel inside it into the underground tank, suddenly the fire began and everybody quickly ran for their lives.
“It burnt down the filling station completely and the house beside the station was also burnt. But later the fire fighters arrived the scene and put out the fire.
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