Eight Firefighters, Fifty Six Others Sustain Injuries In Kano Tank Explosion

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Kano tank explosion

The Kano State Fire Service, yesterday, printed that no fewer than sixty four persons, together with eight firefighters, sustained countless tiers of burns from a petroleum tanker explosion at a filling station in Sharada region of the state. Confirming the incident, spokesperson of the Fire Service, Saminu Abdullahi, stated the explosion involving the tanker with variety plate NSR 183 XW passed off when the tanker used to be offloading its product at the filling station.


Abdullahi stated the victims have been rushed to the Murtala Muhammad Hospital.


He said: “We acquired a misery call at about 16:20 hrs Saturday night from Malam Sha’abu Umar and NCC in Sharada Gadar Yanmata, Kano, informing us of a petroleum tanker with wide variety plate NSR 183 XW carrying 6,600 litres of petrol concerned in fireplace outbreak whilst offloading the product.


“The furnace used to be added beneath manipulate through our guys at 16:50 hours. After a quick while, one of the filling station staff, Ahmed Mohammad, 26-year-old, ignorantly opened one of the tanker’s compartment and as a end result reignited the hearth main to an explosion that trapped sixty four victims, such as eight of the firefighters, who acquired burnt from the explosion.”

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