Unconfirmed reports have it that no fewer than 12 people were burnt to death while several others were injured just as properties particularly residential houses were destroyed when a tanker lorry loaded with PMS products lost control and crashed under a bridge in Gombe on Saturday.
An eyewitnesses who narrated the accident to news men at the scene said the explosion occurred after the tanker which was headed to one of the filling stations in the town was involved in an accident with a truck carrying bottled water along the Gombe bypass road.
The eyewitness said the men of the Nigerian Red Cross Society with assistance from other rescue workers took away the burned bodies of victims of the explosion which occurred in the afternoon of Saturday.
The eyewitnesses was quoted as saying that the tanker, which was fully loaded with petrol, collided with another truck that was carrying bottled water along Gombe southern bypass.
All efforts to get the reaction from the FRSC and the State Police Command about the accident proved abortive as all calls could not get through when our Correspondent called.
