Eleven people have sustained varying degrees of burns following a petrol tanker explosion in Oluku, Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Edo State.
The victims were rushed to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital after the tanker, which reportedly fell in the morning, exploded at about 1 pm on Thursday while residents were scooping fuel from it.
An eyewitness told our correspondent that the fuel spilt from the tanker flowed into nearby drainage channels around which shops had been erected at Oluku Market.
He added that the fire spread to shops in the market and affected vehicles caught in the ensuing chaos.
