A security guard identified as Emmanuel was reported dead while on Monday inside a petrol tanker while scooping fuel at Frankies Concerns Limited, a filling station along Enerhen road, opposite MCC Junction in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State.

According to a report by DailyPost, the security guard who was found dead stark n*ked in one of the petroleum tankers, got suffocated while attempting to scoop fuel with a bucket from the petrol tanker.

It was gathered that the driver whose name is yet to be confirmed, drove the tanker with the lifeless body of the deceased back to the filling station where the corpse was removed and taken to a mortuary in the area.

Speaking to a correspondent on condition of anonymity, a staff of the filling Station stated that the security guard hung his clothes in a stick beside one of their offices yesterday and since then, they had looked for him to no avail, only to discover his dead body later in the taker.


“He hung his dress and short-nicker by his office. We started looking for him since yesterday until this moment, but could not be traced.

"The tanker went to depot to load fuel ad his lifeless body was discovered inside the tanker when they wanted to load it and immediately the driver drove back the tanker to the filling station where the body was removed and taken to the mortuary,” according to the staff.