From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja
Many persons were on Monday night burnt beyond recognition following the petrol tanker explotion on Federal High way, Felele,a suburb of Lokoja, the Kogi state capital.
Our Reporter who visited the scene of the accident gathered from eyewitnesses that one of the articulated vehicles descending from the NNPC axis of the road towards the popular Nataco junction caused the accident at about 10pm on Monday.
According to Mr Alabi Emmanuel, who spoke with our Correspondent said that an articulated vehicle, loaded with diesel, experienced break failure and rammed into another articulated vehicle ascending the road.
“Immediately the accident happened, we just heard sound reminiscent of explosion and we rushed out to know the next line of action because we thought it was bomb but thank God it was not,”he said.
The autocrash also affected another articulated vehicle carrying textile materials as well as other smaller vehicles.
One of the articulated vehicles was seeing burning at the time our Correspondent visited the area at 8 15 p.m.with some victims trapped, burnt beyond recognition.
Those that sustained various degrees of injury, including commercial motorcycle operators, have been rushed to various hospitals for treatment.
Our Correspondent reports that the Felele high way is noted for vital accident and in many cases involving articulated vehicles.
The ugly trend prompted the federal government to construct bumps at the intervals of the road to reduce accident and check the attendant loss of lives and property.
Efforts to reach the police and FRSC at the time of filling this report proved abortive.