Two severely burnt as diesel tanker plunges from Otedola bridge in Lagos

Two radical person sustained terrible pain injuries aft a diesel-laden tanker plunged from Otedola Bridge successful Lagos and caught occurrence beneath the bridge.

A connection by the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, said its exigency effect team, moving with different exigency absorption agencies, rescued the victims from the country and ensured their evacuation for urgent aesculapian treatment.

The incidental occurred erstwhile the tanker fell from the bridge, triggering a occurrence that engulfed the underpass and near the 2 victims with extended burns.

According to LASTMA, its exigency effect squad rapidly mobilised to the country and rescued the victims from the information zone, wherever they required contiguous aesculapian attention.

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency's Rescue Unit, LRU, subsequently evacuated the injured victims to the Lagos State Accident and Emergency Centre astatine Toll-Gate, wherever they were admitted for treatment.

"The terrifying conflagration near 2 victims with extended and terrible pain injuries, necessitating their contiguous extrication from the information portion and urgent aesculapian intervention," the connection said.

Meanwhile, operatives of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service were deployed to conflict the fire, incorporate the flames and forestall the incidental from spreading further.

The firefighting cognition was besides aimed astatine preventing further casualties and imaginable harm to surrounding infrastructure.

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