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Eleme tanker explosion: We evacuated four bodies from the scene – FRSC

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The Federal Highway Security Corps, FRSC, Rivers State Command, says it recovered 4 useless our bodies from the scene of the fireplace incident alongside the Eleme-axis of the East-West Highway in Rivers State.

The Sector Commander of the state command, Corps Commander Christopher Kuje, additionally revealed that the stays of the diseased have been taken to the Army Hospital.

Talking in an interview with DAILY POST, Kuje said that 60 autos had been affected by the fireplace incident.

Kuje mentioned, “Truly, the variety of folks killed that we met on floor which we had been in a position to evacuate to army hospital is 4.

“After which the variety of autos that had been affected is sixty.

“These ones I’m speaking about had been burnt past recognition. We had to make use of physique baggage to hold them.

“It’s physique bag that we utilized in carrying them to the hospital, as a result of they had been burnt past recognition.

“If there was any physique, we might have seen it. So these are those we met on floor. I wouldn’t need to speak on one thing that we didn’t see.

“Those we noticed on floor is what I’m speaking about. That’s the quantity we met and that’s the quantity we evacuated to army hospital in Port Harcourt.”

He added that the FRSC has commenced the evacuation of the autos concerned within the hearth incident, to clear the visitors attributable to the inferno.

”We succeeded in resolving the difficulty by first diverting visitors for many who couldn’t await us to clear the street via Oyigbo, the choice route.

“Aside from that, we had been in a position to meet Indorama. We received their crane after which we moved all of the heavy obligation vans and tankers from the street.

“Proper now we additionally received vans the place we’re eradicating the small autos after which taking them to a protected place at Eliozu.”

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