{"id":539,"date":"2014-08-20T10:30:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T10:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=539"},"modified":"2014-08-20T10:30:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T10:30:12","slug":"two-siblings-woman-burnt-to-death-in-ogun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Two siblings, woman burnt to death in Ogun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><sub><i><b>A<\/b><\/i><\/sub><i><b>BEOKUTA<\/b><\/i><i> \u2014 <\/i><i>Tragedy <\/i><i> struck yesterday, in Temitope axis of Idiroko border town when three persons including two siblings and a woman were burnt to death. <\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">The incident occurred when two vehicles being used for bunkering business had a head-on collision and burst into flame.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><i>Vanguard<\/i> gathered that one of the victims simply identified as Fatai, his younger brother and a woman who reportedly engaged in illegally trans-border crossing of petroleum products between Idiroko border and Republic of Benin died in the inferno.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">It was gathered that the three were returning from a smuggling base generally referred to as \u201cbeebe\u201d, before their Nissan Sunny car with number plate, LAGOS AKD 194 BS, collided with an unmarked Ford bus loaded with fuel.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><i>Vanguard<\/i> further gathered that the unmarked Ford bus, laden with 200 units of 50-liter capacity jerry cans of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) was heading to the beebe petroleum black market for onward movement to the neighbouring country before the accident occurred.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">An eye witness said in a hurried movement to avoid being caught by security operatives, particularly the Nigeria Customs Service, the vehicles collided in front of a filling station located.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">Police officers from Idiroko Divisional Headquarters also arrived the scene and towed the carcasses of the burnt vehicles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABEOKUTA \u2014 Tragedy struck yesterday, in Temitope axis of Idiroko border town when three persons including two siblings and a woman were burnt to death. The incident occurred when two vehicles being used for bunkering business had a head-on collision and burst into flame. Vanguard gathered that one of the victims simply identified as Fatai, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strange-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-8H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}