No fewer than 10 persons have been confirmed dead on today after they were reportedly burnt to death in a tanker explosion at the Sagamu interchange, along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Ogun State.
VOP News gathered that five vehicles were also burnt in the inferno.
The Public Education Officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Ogun Sector Command, Florence Okpe and Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the accident.
AKinbiyi and Okpe said the victims of the accidents were burnt beyond recognition.
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Sector Commander in Ogun State, Ahmed Umar, said that two fuel-laden tankers, two trucks, and one bus were involved in the explosion.
Umar said the burnt persons were taken to the Olabisi Onabanjo Teaching Hospital in Sagamu while some of the burnt vehicles were towed off the road.
He said while the cause of the incident remained unknown, eyewitnesses attributed it to over speeding by one truck driver who lost control to smash the body of the tanker.
