Tanker explosion: El-Rufai visits Tafa, assesses damage

 

Kaduna state Governor, Nasir ElRufai, has visited Tafa, Kagarko local government area of the state to assess the level of damage caused by Saturday’s tanker fi re.
Tafa village, which serves as a rendezvous for tanker drivers, is a notable spot for tanker accidents because drivers making stopovers usually park their vehicles indiscriminately along the highway.
On Saturday, a petrol tanker exploded causing the death of about three persons with many others sustaining injuries.
About twenty houses also got burnt.
On Sunday evening, Governor El-Rufai visited the scene of the incident.
According to his spokesperson, Samuel Aruwan, the state government will act soon to curb the menace posed by the tankers.
“We (the state) will soon act appropriately without recourse to any bottleneck,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
Th e state police spokesperson, Mukhtar Hussain Aliyu, who confi rmed the incident, had said it was while the youth in the area gathered to scoop fuel from the tanker that the explosion occurred.
He added that some of the youth had deposited their containers with a food vendor by the roadside.
“Th e fuel spilled to the food vendor and that ignited the fi re,” he said.
He said the police with other agencies of government were able to put out the fi re, adding that the situation had been brought under control.
Spokesperson of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Yushau Shuaib, said a mosque was also destroyed in the incident, but that no life was lost.
He said rescue workers were quickly mobilised to the scene to evacuate residents from the raging inferno.
(Premium Times)

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