(MENAFN) On Wednesday, Oct. 13 an official stated that three persons lost their lives and antoher two were wounded when a petrol tanker blasted in northeast Nigeria's Adamawa state.
The victims were burnt to death in a petrol tanker blaze outburst in Mubi area of the state early Wednesday, Mohammed Sulaiman, executive secretary of the Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency, said to reporters at a press meeting in Yola, the state capital.
Sulaiman noted: "so far, three people lost their lives and two sustained injuries from fire burns and they are receiving medical treatment in the Mubi General Hospital," further saying a probe is ongoing to discover the reason of the blast.
The official urged petroleum products dealers in the state to, as a matter of safety, avert operating in "odd hours."
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