A minimum of 3 persons has been burnt to death in a fire incident involving a tanker and three other vehicles on Kara Bridge on the Lagos – Ibadan Expressway in the early hours of Wednesday. The incident had however resulted in heavy gridlock on the Berger side of the expressway, with many motorists and commuters stranded as no vehicle could go through the bridge outward Lagos. While the three persons were burnt beyond recognition and their remains in the care of the security agencies, a burnt corpse was also seen floating on the Ogun River under the bridge. It was gathered that the fire started around 3am when a truck carrying goods lost its brake and ran into a tanker, which ignited the fire and engulfed two other trucks and a Toyota Corolla saloon car in flames. But the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, in a statement, said the incident occurred at about 3.08am when the tanker carrying 33,000 liters of diesel ran into a truck carrying brewery products at high speed, and then caught fire. It also said the tanker, two container-carrying trucks, and one Toyota Corolla saloon car were burnt in the accident.
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