Sokoto – The decomposed body
of a 25-old-man, Zayyanu
Abubakar, has been evacuated
from inside a petrol tanker
compartment where he
suffocated and died since Friday,
Oct. 4, while stealing petrol.
The deceased fell inside the tank
of the vehicle with registration
number, XA 640 TBW, parked
along Sokoto western bye-pass,
loaded with 33,000 litres of
petrol.
The deceased was alleged to
have earlier on the night of the
fateful day, stolen 20 litres from
the fuel compartment and had
returned for more when he
ended up inside.
It took the combined efforts of
the officers of the state fire
service, the police from Kwanni
Division, Sokoto and some good
Samaritans, four hours – 8 a.m to
12 noon – to remove the
decomposed body from the
tankers belly.
Yahaya Mohammed, a relative of
the deceased said at the scene
of the incident that Abubakar
was warned by his brothers
against the act.
“He told his siblings about his
earlier successful exploits and
they warned him against going
back into the vehicle.
“He had told them that he nearly
suffocated in the first attempt,
but unknown to them, he went
back, got trapped and died,”
Mohammed said.
A fire serviceman, Zayyanu Jelani
said, “we were here since
around 8.00a.m when we were
alerted about the ugly
development.
“This is the first time we are
recording this type of
unfortunate incident in Sokoto
apart from fire incidents on fuel
tankers.”
The spokesman of the state
police command, DSP Al-
Mustapha Sani confirmed the
story and added that the police
would thoroughly investigate the
incident.
NAN reports that the remains of
the deceased had been
deposited at the morgue of
Uthmanu Danfodio University
Teaching Hospital, Sokoto. ( NAN)


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The spokesman of the state
police command, DSP Al-
Mustapha Sani confirmed the
story and added that the
police
would thoroughly investigate
the
incident.

wetin dem wan thoroughly investigate in the matter now?

Any small thing, the next thing is they will thoroughly investigate it with no meaningful eventual outcome.