A fuel ladened tanker on Wednesday night exploded in Akure, Ondo State.

WuzupNaija gathered that the incident occurred at an NNPC filling station at the Shagari Village junction along the Ilesa-Owo Highway.

Many vehicles, shops were affected but there is no information yet, regarding the number of casualties.

Yesterday, WuzupNaija reported that a petrol tanker spilt its content along the Lagos-Badagry road between Barracks and Onireke in Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos in the early hours of Tuesday causing a fire outbreak that consumed seven vehicles.

That the inferno, which began at about 5.00 a. m, destroyed the contents of a Mack trailer conveying crates of drinks from Intercontinental Breweries.

The fire gutted a station wagon Peugeot car, one Space bus, a Toyota Hummer jeep, a Mazda bus, a container conveying food products from Delta and an empty Mack trailer.

Mr Ja’faru Anka, a Senior Marshall Inspector of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), said that he arrived at the scene few minutes after the fire started.

He said that seven vehicles were gutted by the fire, but no life was lost.