{"id":10199,"date":"2018-06-28T20:09:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T20:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=10199"},"modified":"2018-06-28T20:09:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T20:09:43","slug":"many-feared-dead-in-lagos-tanker-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=10199","title":{"rendered":"Many feared dead in Lagos tanker explosion (Video attached)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion from a petrol tanker which fell and spilled its content on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway Thursday evening, has left many dead, with tens of cars burnt. A dark plume of smoke filled the air.<br \/>\nFirst responders had a hectic day controlling a crowd that gathered and was more interested in taking shots and filming for social media posts.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10200\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10200\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10200\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/9a589ee0-e64a-4757-a540-ec2b052ca63f-e1530211464886-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plume of smoke from the exploded petrol tanker.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nA second, but milder, explosion threw ash in the air and forced spectators back for emergency workers to do their work.<br \/>\nThe accident and the attendant fire occured at Otedola Estate junction of the Lagos Ibadan expressway, leaving charred human bodies and cars.<br \/>\nMany wept at the scene while others took shots.<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 696px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-10199-1\" width=\"696\" height=\"394\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/VID-20180628-WA0011.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/VID-20180628-WA0011.mp4\">https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/VID-20180628-WA0011.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion from a petrol tanker which fell and spilled its content on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway Thursday evening, has left many dead, with tens of cars burnt. A dark plume of smoke filled the air. First responders had a hectic day controlling a crowd that gathered and was more interested in taking shots and filming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}