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NSCDC operatives avert major disaster in Kwara

AdminBy AdminDecember 7, 2021Updated:December 7, 2021No Comments2 Mins Read
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By Correspondent in Ilorin.

Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC), Kwara state Command,on Monday, prevented raging inferno, occasioned by a tanker explosion, from spreading to nearby residential buildings in Alapa, a suburb of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital

The public relations officer of the command, Babawale Zaid Afolabi, disclosed this to Journalists in Ilorin on Tuesday adding that the tanker was trying to offload fuel at a popular filling station inside the town when it suddenly it went up in flame.

” We got a distress call around 18.30 hours on Monday evening, that a fuel laden truck has exploded inside a filling station and our officers at a nearby outpost in the town rushed down to the scene of the incident to assist in managing the situation.” Babawale disclosed.

He stated further that men of the fire service had been contacted, adding that they arrived the occasionto contain the inferno from spreading to the residential buildings.

“The timely intervention of the NSCDC and the fire service who responded swiftly to the distress call prevented the fire from spreading to other buildings around the filling station,the fire has been put under control.

“No life is lost in the incident, though the filling station is badly affected,” he said.

Edited by Dada Ahmed.

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