Luck ran out on four suspected marketers
of stolen fuel on Tuesday after a civilian bus with number plate, KTU
418 XK, loaded with petrol went up in flames. The four suspects were said to have
siphoned the fuel from the pipelines of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation on Lagos waterways and were engulfed in the inferno, which
killed three of them.
The last victim sustained severe burns.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the
victims, whose name had yet to be ascertained, were returning from where
they had stolen the fuel around 5am when the vehicle crashed into a
pole at Aswani in the Isolo area of the state and caught fire.
The men of the Lagos State Fire Service
from Isolo and Ilupeju stations were said to have arrived at the scene
to put out the fire.
An eyewitness, Kola Isiaq, said, “The
bus crashed into a pole and exploded. We discovered that it was loaded
with petrol in jerrycans.”
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