“I saw darkness everywhere immediately the tanker exploded,” he said while speaking with Saturday PUNCH on Friday on his hospital bed where yards of bandages now strapped him like an armour.
Lagos Tanker Explosion: “It Was Like War, We Thought the End Has Come”, Survivors Narrate Experience and How He Survived.
“I thought I was going to die. It was as if the end has come. There was commotion everywhere, just like in a war. Nothing else came to my mind.
We all believed it was the end,” he added soberly as he narrated his ordeal to his teary-eyed wife – Faidat – and other family members, who had come to check on him on Friday morning.
While attributing his narrow escape to divine grace, the Ile-Ife indigene said that for a few minutes after the tanker fell, he and others in the vehicle were confused as to what to do.
He revealed that it was while it was being argued that the content of the truck was diesel or petrol that the entire place erupted in flames.
