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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>No fewer than 13 persons sustained various degrees of injuries on Thursday night after a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) tanker exploded at Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, opposite Sheraton Hotels and Towers, Ikeja.<\/p>\n

Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Acting Zonal Coordinator, South West Zonal Office, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), confirmed the development to newsmen in Ikeja on Friday, NAN reports.<\/p>\n

Farinloye said about 25 cars were destroyed in the explosion which was caused by leakage while the LPG tanker was in motion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fire affected the premises of Ogun State Property Investment Company (OPIC) Plaza besides Sheraton Hotels, which houses different commercial outfits including a Chinese Restaurant.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter concerted efforts of five fire trucks from the Lagos State Fire Service and two trucks from the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency Response Unit the fire was put out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe initial search and rescue activities revealed that 13 persons sustained various degrees of burns. Out of this, nine are males while four are females,\u201d Farinloye said.<\/p>\n

According to him, the affected victims were attended to at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) for First Aid.<\/p>\n

\u201cPreliminary assessment of vehicles damaged indicated that about 25 were destroyed as at now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Five confirmed dead in Ogun tanker explosion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. No fewer than 13 persons sustained various degrees of injuries on Thursday night after a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) tanker exploded at Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, opposite Sheraton Hotels and Towers, Ikeja. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Acting Zonal Coordinator, South West Zonal Office, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), confirmed the development to newsmen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":45249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,28,26],"tags":[1570,2140,206,254],"class_list":["post-45250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-lagos","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"\n13 injured, 25 cars destroyed as LPG tanker explodes in Lagos - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No fewer than 13 persons sustained various degrees of injuries on Thursday night after a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) t ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/13-injured-25-cars-destroyed-as-lpg-tanker-explodes-in-lagos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"13 injured, 25 cars destroyed as LPG tanker explodes in Lagos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"No fewer than 13 persons sustained various degrees of injuries on Thursday night after a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) t ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/13-injured-25-cars-destroyed-as-lpg-tanker-explodes-in-lagos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-18T15:14:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60ccacbf3df93.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/13-injured-25-cars-destroyed-as-lpg-tanker-explodes-in-lagos#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/13-injured-25-cars-destroyed-as-lpg-tanker-explodes-in-lagos\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"13 injured, 25 cars destroyed as LPG tanker explodes in Lagos\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-18T15:14:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/13-injured-25-cars-destroyed-as-lpg-tanker-explodes-in-lagos\"},\"wordCount\":213,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/13-injured-25-cars-destroyed-as-lpg-tanker-explodes-in-lagos#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60ccacbf3df93.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Lagos\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/13-injured-25-cars-destroyed-as-lpg-tanker-explodes-in-lagos#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/13-injured-25-cars-destroyed-as-lpg-tanker-explodes-in-lagos\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/13-injured-25-cars-destroyed-as-lpg-tanker-explodes-in-lagos\",\"name\":\"13 injured, 25 cars destroyed as LPG tanker explodes in Lagos - 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