{"id":725222,"date":"2019-10-17T09:46:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T09:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/17\/woman-baby-roasted-in-onitsha-tanker-fire-incident\/"},"modified":"2019-10-17T09:46:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T09:46:06","slug":"woman-baby-roasted-in-onitsha-tanker-fire-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/17\/woman-baby-roasted-in-onitsha-tanker-fire-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, Baby Roasted In Onitsha Tanker Fire Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_703058\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-703058\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-703058\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/5d6a5ecd113e3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-703058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanker Explosion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An inferno at Upper Iweka area of Onitsha, Anambra State has left a woman and her baby dead and over 40 buildings razed after a tanker explosion on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>According to report, over 500 lock-up shops were destroyed by the fire along with the Iweka street market leading to Ochanja and Menax markets.<\/p>\n<p>A tanker fully loaded with Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol, descending from the Zik\u2019s roundabout end of Onitsha-Enugu expressway, was said to have lost control at Toronto Hospital and veered off the service lane.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the tanker reportedly fell off and went up in flames after spilling its content within the area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Lagosians Risk Their Lives To Scoop Fuel From Leaking Tanker (Video)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The woman, who was said to be carrying her baby to jump out of her shop, mistakenly stepped on a slippery object and fell straight into the gutter raging with fire, Guardian reports.<\/p>\n<p>She could not be rescued as the inferno covered the entire area.<\/p>\n<p>According to an eyewitness, the fire started at about 10:00 a.m. and there was no presence of fire servicemen at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can see people looking helplessly as their houses, shops, and goods are burning. If not for the courage of some youths, some elderly persons and children trapped in some highrise buildings along Iweka road would have perished in the fire as smoke almost suffocated them before they were rescued,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Tanker Explosion An inferno at Upper Iweka area of Onitsha, Anambra State has left a woman and her baby dead and over 40 buildings razed after a tanker explosion on Wednesday night. 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