Tanker Explosion, Fire Around NNPC Building In Abuja

Information reaching OluFamous.Com from the federal capital territory, Abuja, is that a huge explosion rocked a popular filling station in the city centre, just by the offices of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation building in Abuja's Central Business District on Thursday afternoon.

The unfortunate incident has thrown the area into panic mood as workers are scampering for safety.

A source at the scene of the explosion told OluFamous.Com on phone that the incident was caused by tanker that was in the process of discharging petroleum product into a Conoil filling station's reserve tank.

As at the time of filling this report, my source say the fire from the tanker has spread to the pumps in the filling station. NNPC Fire Service who are in the vicinity do not have water, making the situation worse.

Update from Abuja as at 19:00 hours is that a combined team of fire fighters have put out the fire.