Benin tanker explosion: ‘Boom! Like a gun’, eyewitness tells GistMatrix
“Now I hear something explode. Boom! Like a gun.” Lazarus was near Oluku on the Benin-Lagos Expressway when a fallen petrol tanker went up in flames on Thursday. He told GistMatrix how he got away.
Updated 10:30 WAT, 17 Oct 2026: Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo has visited the burnt Oluku market and the injured at UBTH and pledged to rebuild the market; there is still no official death toll. Updated 10:26 WAT, 16 Oct 2026: The Edo State Police Command says eight people suffered burns and were taken to UBTH, and that the fire…