On Tuesday, In the Farawa Kwanar Yashi region of Kano State, a fire destroyed five tankers that each held 20,400 liters of diesel.
According to the state fire service, the portable generator was used to upload the products from the diesel tankers to surface tanks in an unfinished building used as a diesel storage area when the fire started from a generator spark.
Saminu Abdullahi, the State Fire Service’s spokesperson, stated that although three persons were trapped in the fire, they had been rescued and sent to the hospital for treatment and that no casualties had been reported in the blaze.
Abdullahi said, “Three victims who were trapped namely Mai Daura Sadi 24 years old, Hassan Sadi and Iliyasu Sadi about 25 years respectively were all rescued alive.”
