Eyewitnesses verbally expressed the fire disaster, which transpired at about 2pm, commenced when a fuel tanker was discharging fuel into the filling station’s underground tank. One of the eyewitnesses verbalized, “In the process of discharging petrol into the underground tank, there was a spark and the tanker caught fire. The inferno engulfed the entire petrol station and trapped the driver while others took to their heels. The man and two others were burnt to death.” When our correspondent visited the scene, the body of the driver and the tanker were still burning. Another eyewitness told our correspondent that one of the petrol attendants, identified as Mallam Ali, who was gauging the fuel level and the driver’s assistant were the other two that died in the incident.
The timely intervention of security agents averted the Manager of the filling station from jumping into the fire to rescue Ali. Besides, the timely advent of the security operatives additionally averted hoodlums from looting the fuel station Withal, the fire, which raged for about two and half hours, burnt six conveyances to ashes, while a building proximate to the filling station, kenned as Visa House, was additionally torched. As of the time of filing this report, firefighters from the CBN Fire Accommodation, Mr. Lee Company, as well as the Kano State Fire Accommodation, including fire fighters from ancillary agencies battled the raging fire for two hours. Efforts to contact the Director of Fire Accommodations in Kano for comments were unsuccessful as his mobile phone was not reachable. In the last three months, over 10 fire incidents had been recorded in Kano, with the worst been that of Rimi Market in Sabon Gari.
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