{"id":2845,"date":"2025-03-20T07:41:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T07:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2025-03-20T07:41:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T07:41:30","slug":"many-feared-dead-as-compressed-gas-laden-truck-explodes-in-karu-bridge-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/many-feared-dead-as-compressed-gas-laden-truck-explodes-in-karu-bridge-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Many feared dead as Compressed Gas -laden truck explodes in Karu Bridge in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #303030; font-family: nunito, sans-serif;\"><b>Many feared dead as Compressed Gas -laden truck explodes in Karu Bridge in Abuja<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<p>By Our Reporter<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">There were fears of deaths on Wednesday night around the Karu bridge area of the nation\u2019s capital, Abuja, following the explosion of\u00a0<b>Compressed Gas -laden truck\u00a0<\/b><b>\u00a0lost brake and started heating other vehicles and exploded.<\/b><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #303030; font-family: nunito, sans-serif;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #303030; font-family: nunito, sans-serif;\"><b>Eye-Witness account revealed that the truck lost control around the Karu bridge, an area between Kugbo and Nyanya on the Abuja-Keffi Expressway.<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #303030; font-family: nunito, sans-serif;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Report from the Federal Emergency Management Authority (FEMA) also attested to Eye-Witnesses account.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to the report &#8220;Emergency Responders Battle To Rescue Victims Of Accident On\u00a0 Karu Bridge where a ghastly motor accident\u00a0 occurred at the Karu bridge between Kugbo and Nyanya in the FCT.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;The accident which occurred at about 7.14 this evening involved a Compressed Natural Gas CNG truck and other vehicles.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to the Head of Forecasting Response and Mitigation division of FEMA,Mr Mark Nyam,&#8221; the accident occurred when the driver of the CNG truck lost control on the bridge there by running into other motorists and leading to an explosion.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He noted that the search and rescue team of FEMA, Federal Fire Service, FCT Fire Service, the Nigeria Police Force and\u00a0 NEMA are ground to rescue the casualties.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">More details as they emerge.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Meanwhile many vehicles and their occupants were burnt beyond recognition while countless number of passengers were stranded as there was no alternative root their homes.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Some residents of Nyaya, karu and Mararaba and keffi axis could not get to the homes before 12 midnight on this fateful day.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">As at the time of filing this report the exact number of the dead and casualties were not known.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many feared dead as Compressed Gas -laden truck explodes in Karu Bridge in Abuja By Our Reporter There were fears of deaths on Wednesday night around the Karu bridge area of the nation\u2019s capital, Abuja, following the explosion of\u00a0Compressed Gas -laden truck\u00a0\u00a0lost brake and started heating other vehicles and exploded. \u00a0 Eye-Witness account revealed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1572,1787,92,1788,1789],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oil-gas","tag-casualties","tag-compressed","tag-gas","tag-ladden","tag-lost-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2847,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions\/2847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}