Red Cross, SEMA visit accident scene in Calabar, condoles family of deceased victims

A associated squad comprising officials of the Nigerian Red Cross, NRC, and Cross River State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, person visited an mishap country successful Calabar, Sunday greeting to measure the level of damage.

Early Sunday morning, a petroleum tanker filled with merchandise collided into a stationary motortruck and exploded, sidesplitting the driver, his conductor, burning adjacent shops and parked vehicles.

Now, the manager wide of the SEMA, Efa Nyong, led a associated appraisal squad comprising officials of CR-SEMA and the Nigerian Red Cross Society to the scene.

The appraisal squad observed the interaction of the occurrence connected the surrounding shops and different property, portion the Cross River State Fire Service continued efforts to wholly enactment retired the inferno.

The squad was received and taken astir the affected areas by the Chairman of Odukpani Local Government Council, Mr Etim Asido, who provided details of the incidental and the grade of harm recorded.

Nyong sympathised with the families of the deceased and the injured, arsenic good arsenic concern owners whose shops were affected by the fire.

He assured the affected persons that the State Government, done CR-SEMA and applicable stakeholders, would proceed to measure the concern and expl...