About 10 persons have died from a petrol tanker explosion in Lokoja the Kogi State Capital. Eyewitnesses say the incident occurred around 8:30 am when the tanker lost control and rammed into oncoming vehicles. Felele is a small town and just a few kilometers from Lokoja and to Okene in Kogi state. The accident I hear happened just before the main campus of Kogi State polytechnic. So many students returning to school perished in the inferno. TROPICS NIGERIA correspondent who is at the scene of the incident confirmed that there are “burnt bodies littered everywhere”.
Scores of people, including school students, burnt to death, in a fallen fuel tanker explosion at Felele, Lokoja, kogi state.

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