{"id":160961,"date":"2019-10-17T09:13:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T08:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=160961"},"modified":"2019-10-17T09:49:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T08:49:18","slug":"buildings-destroyed-lives-lost-as-petrol-tanker-goes-up-in-flames-in-anambra-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=160961","title":{"rendered":"Buildings destroyed, lives lost as petrol tanker went up in flames in Anambra State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Police-Arrest-Four-Suspects-Linked-To-Abule-Egba-Pipeline-Explosion.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Several buildings were destroyed and a handful of persons lost their lives on Wednesday when a tanker carrying 33,000 litres of petrol exploded at Upper Iweka, Onitsha, Anambra State.<\/p>\n<p>Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission in the state, Mr Andrew Kumapayi, confirmed the tragedy to News Agency of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the incident occurred at around 12:44 pm.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThe tanker lost control due to brake failure, the head of the vehicle pulled out while the tank containing petroleum product fell into the gutter spilling its content on the road and it caught fire due to the spill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fire spread through the gutter and affected about six houses on the road and shops in Ochanja Market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fire service got there on time but their pump developed fault.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the pump had functioned, the fire wouldn\u2019t have spread to the houses and shops.\u201d <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several buildings were destroyed and a handful of persons lost their lives on Wednesday when a tanker carrying 33,000 litres of petrol exploded at Upper Iweka, Onitsha, Anambra State. Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission in the state, Mr Andrew Kumapayi, confirmed the tragedy to News Agency of Nigeria. He stated that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[795,10286],"class_list":["post-160961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anambra","tag-explosion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}