Fuel tanker truck explodes on London bridge, one lifeless, a variety of injured | Video

By India Today World Desk: A collision between a car and a gasoline provide truck in Connecticut on Friday sparked an unlimited blaze on a critical freeway bridge, rapidly shutting down Interstate 95 as firefighters labored to incorporate a hearth that leap onto adjoining land. Officials talked about the truck driver died and completely different people had been injured, reported data firm Associated Press.

The incident occurred shortly after 11 am on the southbound side of the Gold Star Memorial Bridge carrying the freeway over the Thames River between New London and Groton.

“It looks like a passenger vehicle tire blew out, creating an incident with the truck, which tipped over”, Governor Ned Lamont was quoted by The Independent as saying. “Billowing smoke, unimaginable flames, pouring correct down by way of the pipes, spilling out into the Thames River.”

Footage from the scene displays huge plumes of black smoke billowing out from the remnants of the truck. The harm unfold to the buildings shut by as first responders struggled to incorporate the fireside.

Videos shared on Twitter current pillars holding up the bridge on hearth down beneath.

Some completely different motion pictures from the scene confirmed flames burning and smoke rising from a protracted a part of the bridge and spreading to land on the Groton side.