By our Reporter
No fewer than 20 persons were burnt to death in Ore, Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State on Sunday.
It was gathered that the victims were scooping fuel from a petrol tanker that fell and spilled its content along the Benin–Ore-Sagamu Expressway on Sunday.
According to an eyewitness who spoke to our correspondent said the fire was ignited by a spark from a phone held by one of the persons who were scooping fuel.
The eyewitness stated that the victims of the disaster included three children and a pregnant woman who brought a sum of N100,000 to the scene to buy fuel.
It was learnt at the scene that three children and over 15 bodies including a pregnant woman who wanted to buy l fuel also died in the incident. They were burnt beyond recognition.”