Motorists and the public should use alternative routes on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway due to a tanker explosion at Araromi town, after Conoil filling station towards Sagamu Interchange on the outward Lagos section of the expressway.

According to the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, the tanker explosion claimed the lives of ten persons.

Its Ogun Sector Commander, Ahmed Umar, informed that two fuel-laden tankers, two trucks, and one bus were involved in the explosion.
Umar said three of the vehicles were burnt in the inferno.
He also said while twelve persons were involved in the inferno, ten persons were burnt to death while two occupants of the vehicles escaped.
According to him, there is a possibility of discovering more casualties as recovery efforts is ongoing, saying first responders including firefighters were at the scene.
Umar said the burnt persons where taken to Olabisi Onabanjo Teaching Hospital in Sagamu while some of the burnt vehicles were towed off the road leaving the two tankers for the fuel content to be transloaded.
He said while the cause of the incident remained unknown, but eyewitnesses attributed it to over speeding by one trucks who lost control to smash the body of the tanker.