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No fewer than three charred bodies have so far been recovered from an early morning fire that started from a fallen oil tanker, close to the Enugu Prisons.<\/p>\n

A Deputy Police Commission, Mr Stephen Ekpei, who was at the scene, confirmed the deaths.<\/p>\n

He denied rumours making the rounds that the fire was the handiwork of Boko Haram. “There is no bomb scare in Enugu. It was just a tanker load of diesel that fell and eventually igniting a fire.”<\/p>\n

Ekpei advised residents of the coal city to get about their normal business as the situation was under control.<\/p>\n

Mr Sikiru Raimi, Commandant, Enugu Command of the Civil Defence Corps, told NAN that the incident occurred when a tanker load of diesel lost control while negotiating a roundabout.<\/p>\n

“The tanker fell spilling the product that eventually caught fire.” According to him, it was unfortunate that the fire followed the spilling fuel to some of the houses close to the scene of the fall.<\/p>\n

He re-confirmed evacuating three corpses that were burnt beyond recognition. Raimi said the members of the fire service arrived in good time to battle the blaze.<\/p>\n

Dr Eric Oluedo, Enugu Commissioner for Rural development, that oversees the fire service, who was at the scene, blamed the incident to carelessness of the driver.<\/p>\n

“This thing is avoidable. How can an articulated truck negotiate a turn in top speed, only for it to skid.<\/p>\n

There was wailing and shouting as bodies of those that were burnt where retrieved by medical teams from the Federal Road Safety Corps, the Police and Civil Defence.<\/p>\n

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