Onitsha Tanker Explosion: Inferno kills mother, child, razes buildings

There were pandemonium and outrage as inferno caused by tanker explosion killed a woman and her baby while many people were inflicted with various degrees of injuries.

Meanwhile no fewer that 40 buildings, ranging from two- storey to four- storey buildings were all razed at Upper Iweka, Onitsha, Anambra state.

For traders, it was painful losses as over 300 lock- up shops with worth billions of naira were also ravaged by inferno along the Iweka street market leading to Ochanja and Menax market .

It was rather a sad moment as people rallied round to fight the fire. As the time of filing this report, no fire fighters were seen anywhere near the inferno.