The incident occurred Saturday afternoon while workers were working at the site.
In 2021, the state government had cleared over 25 shanties and charged the residents to court for violating environmental laws.
According to report from emergency responders, the driver fell into the ditch while trying to cross a mini bridge.
“FRSC Ogun sector command wishes to inform the motoring public on the traffic situation along Lagos-Ibadan expressway on burning tanker laden with gas.”
No fewer than four occupants of a car were trapped after a container fell off its carriage truck at the Ojuelegba bridge in Lagos on Sunday.
Emergency responders are presently in Ikotun, ready to deal with a possible pipeline explosion as “a very large volume of” petrol gushes out of the NNPC pipeline in the area.
LASEMA has warned Lagos residents against causing a fallen fuel tanker at Oregun to explode through “ignition or exposure to any form of naked fire.”
The director-general of LASEMA, Oluwaglfemi Oke-Osanyintolu, has disclosed that the agency responded to 822 emergencies in six months.
A 40-feet container fell on two cars on Otedola Bridge, crushing one person to death while two are injured.
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said no life was lost in a fire that gutted Lagos Elephant House on Sunday.
