Four persons sustained various injuries on Wednesday as a fire gutted Fat Noble Filling Station, an independent marketing oil firm along Old Road, opposite Torikoh, Badagry, Lagos.

The attendants were dispensing petrol inside jerry cans and sacks around 1:00 a.m. at the back of the station when the explosion occurred.

According to a source, those who sustained injuries were quickly rushed to the General Hospital in Badagry before the arrival of fire fighters.

“They are selling fuel, which is to be smuggled out of the country immediately when there was an explosion. The fire destroyed some part of the station before the arrival of the men of the Lagos Fire Service.

“Those who suffered fatal injuries were taken to the hospital, while those with minor injuries were treated within,” a source said.

Meanwhile, the station head of Badagry Fire Service, Lagos, Isaac Dossa, said they received an emergency call at 1:15 a.m. about the incident and they proceeded to the scene immediately.

“We got to the scene of the fire incident around 1:25.a.m., and the fire was put out around 3:55.a.m. the same day. They took most of the victims of the fire incident to the general hospital before our arrival,” Mr Dossa said.

The medical director of the hospital, Dr Olatunde Bakare, said the victims were brought to the hospital around 1:30 a.m.

He said that the doctor and nurses on duty attended to them promptly.

According to Mr Bakake, they are currently receiving treatment at the emergency unit of the hospital.

(NAN)