What happened

A fire engulfed a five-million-litre Automotive Gas Oil (diesel) storage tank at the Bono Energy Storage Terminal within the Ibru Jetty Complex in Olodi Apapa, Lagos. The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service received the distress call at 12:04 and, with other emergency teams and neighbouring oil-and-gas facilities, extinguished the fire by 13:54. Authorities said the response prevented the blaze from spreading to adjoining tanks and critical infrastructure and reported no casualties. The cause remained under investigation. BusinessDay reported that the terminal stores gasoline, gasoil, aviation turbine kerosene and base oil and has an overall storage capacity of 47,350 metric tonnes; that total is facility capacity, not the quantity burned.

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