{"id":22435,"date":"2025-11-22T17:02:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T16:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/?p=22435"},"modified":"2025-11-22T17:02:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T16:02:56","slug":"three-killed-as-lpg-tanker-explodes-in-ibadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/?p=22435","title":{"rendered":"Three Killed as LPG Tanker Explodes in Ibadan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three people were killed on Friday when a tanker carrying 15 tonnes of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) exploded at Idi-Iroko, Amuloko area of Ibadan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to officials, the incident occurred while the tanker was off-loading its contents into a gas skid tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Confirming the tragedy in a statement on Saturday, the Chairman of the Oyo State Fire Services Agency, Mr. Maroof Akinwande, described the explosion as \u201ca devastating loss.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur operatives received a distress call at exactly 7:40 p.m. on Friday from one Pastor Oyebamiji,\u201d Akinwande said.<br>\u201cThree lives were sadly lost, and the fire also damaged two shops and a residential building.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that firefighters were immediately deployed to the scene to contain the situation and prevent further destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities are expected to conduct further investigations into the cause of the explosion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three people were killed on Friday when a tanker carrying 15 tonnes of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) exploded at Idi-Iroko, Amuloko area of Ibadan. According to officials, the incident occurred while the tanker was off-loading its contents into a gas skid tank. Confirming the tragedy in a statement on Saturday, the Chairman of the Oyo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/EXPLOSION-ABUJA-768x443-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22437,"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22435\/revisions\/22437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}