Nigeria, April 28 -- One person has been confirmed dead while two others sustained varying degrees of injuries as a gas tanker exploded in Ita-Osin, Abeokuta, Ogun State on Saturday.

The accident also left five vehicles burnt.

A witness told PREMIUM TIMES that the accident occurred following a suspected brake failure, after which the tanker driver rammed the vehicle into the road culvert. He said the tanker went up in flames afterwards.

A spokesperson for the Ogun State Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Florence Okpe, later confirmed the incident in a statement on Saturday evening.

Mrs Okpe said that the deceased was suspected to be the motorboy of the gas-laden tanker.

She said the truck suffered a brake failure after...