No
fewer than 69 persons burnt to death Sunday evening when a trailer
loaded with Premium Motor Spirit otherwise known as petrol that was
descending from Army barracks side of Onitsha Enugu express way lost
control and rammed into the Asaba Motor Park at Upper Iwekas Onitsha and
exploded.
Eleven vehicles mostly commuter buses and two
motorcycles inside the Asaba Park Onitsha including the 40 foot tanker
laden with petrol burnt beyond repairs inside the park.
Governor
Willie Obiano and the Anambra State Commissioner wept on seeing the
number casualties when they visited the scene of the accident, the
Governor told the relations of the victims to take heart and promised
that the state will help in ensuring that the living victims are well
taken care of in their respective hospitals
The Nigerian Red
Cross Society officials were the first to arrive at the scene of the
incident, and according to its Chairman Prof Peter Emeka Kathy “we have
sixty nine burnt to dead persons as at now, there are other 30
casualties, a casualty is a living person, a dead person is no longer a
casualty, so 69 persons are dead, and they have bee evaluated to various
mortuaries in Onitsha, from Toronto to St Charles Boromneo Mortuaries
and others in town”.
Credit: Chimaobi Nwaiwu/Vanguard
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