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By Ifeanyi Okolie
LAGOS\u2014There was pandemonium, Wednesday , at Kirikiri Town, a suburb of Lagos State, when fire gutted an oil tanker belonging to one of the major oil firms operating in the area, Techno Oil.<\/p>\n

The fire, which started around 1:00p.m., was allegedly caused by a welder, who was said to be repairing one of the tanks.<\/p>\n

News of the fire which rattled the entire community, sent residents running in different directions.<\/p>\n

Inhabitants of Creek View Estate which is situated some few miters away from the tank farms,\u00a0 were forced to evacuated their homes for the\u00a0 fear of a possible explosion, while pupils of Great Trinity\u00a0 Nursery Primary School, which is not far the tank farms,\u00a0 were quickly evacuated.\u00a0\u00a0 Panic stricken parents, whose lads could not make their way home, were also seen hurrying to leave the vicinity.<\/p>\n

When Vanguard visited the scene, the cloud was covered with a ball of tick dark smoke emanating from the bottom of a silver colored oil tank.\u00a0 Staffs of the oil firms were seen trying to put off the fire with both water and fire extinguisher.<\/p>\n

An eyewitness who craved for anonymity hinted Vanguard that, the affected tank was empty; he explained that the inferno would have gone worst the tank was not empty.<\/p>\n

According to him \u201cI work in this place,\u00a0\u00a0 I don\u2019t think this welding in an environment like this is right, this is an oil\u00a0 tank farm and\u00a0 we also store large amount of high inflammable petroleum products flue and yet they still allow these welders to work in this premises.\u00a0 If\u00a0\u00a0 that thank wasn\u2019t empty only God knows the would have happened.<\/p>\n

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