Tanker driver kills 69 in Onitsha

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 (Nigeria) A fully loaded petrol tanker, conveying Premium Motor Spirit otherwise known as petrol, has crashed into the Asaba Motor Park on Upper Iwekas Onitsha, killing no fewer than 69 persons in the ensuing explosion.
Also, 11 vehicles mostly commuter buses and two motorcycles inside the Asaba Park Onitsha including the 40 foot tanker laden with petrol were burnt inside the park.
The scene of the carnage forced Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State to tear.
Anambra State Commissioner also wept on seeing the destruction and deaths caused by the tanker explosion, which reportedly had brake failure.
The Nigerian Red Cross Society officials were the first to arrive at the scene and according to its Chairman, Prof Peter Kathy "we have 69 burnt to dead persons as at now, there are other 30 casualties, a casualty is a living person, a dead person is no longer a casualty, so 69 persons are dead, and they have been evaluated to various mortuaries in Onitsha, from Toronto to St Charles Boromneo Mortuaries and others in town.
“The dead and casualties were caught in the inferno, which is sequel to the recklessness of the tanker driver who lost his break descending the hill from Boromeo and Army Barracks end of the Onitsha Enugu Express way toward Upper Iweka, instead of him looking for a wide gutter to break his vehicle, he veered into a park where passengers were loaded in the vehicle and most of the people that did are passengers inside vehicles in the park.
"If the driver of the tanker were alive, we would have charged him to court because it is a multiple murder, he was reckless, he knew he was well loaded with petrol and yet he decided to direct his vehicle into a motor park does, he has no care for human lives. How can you veer into a park where you know people were filled in the buses when the road is wide enough for you to control your vehicle?"

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