A petrol-laden tanker has exploded at Ajegunle Bus-Stop, around Alagbado, on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, in the early hours of Friday.
One person has been reportedly dead while several houses, among other properties, said to have been burnt in the inferno, as men of the state fire service and the police were deployed in the area.
The incident happened around 3am on Friday (today).
Emergency officials, including firefighters from the Lagos State Fire Service, are said to be at at the scene battling to put out the fire as of press time Friday morning.