A five –month old baby and two
others are currently hospitalised after a gas explosion rocked L and K area of Oworoshoki,
Lagos State.
According to eye-witnesses, the
explosion which shook and collapsed some shops and residential buildings,
occurred at about 10am, yesterday.
The explosion was traced to a yet to
be opened shop at No. 88 Oworo Road, where gas refrigerator cylinders are
locked up.
A five-month-old baby, the
landlord’s son, Mr. Monsure Angulo, occupants of a building beside the shop, sustained
injuries. The other injured person was a motorcycle rider. He was said to have
been hit by some objects during the explosion.
A resident, Funsho said: “We were
inside our own apartment when we heard a loud noise. The noise shook our own building.
We initially thought it was a bomb. We noticed smoke all over the place after we
peeped outside. We discovered it was from a shop where refrigerators and gas
cylinders are kept.”
Many buildings on both sides of the
road were badly damaged. Head of Department Disaster Management of Nigeria
Civil and Security Defence Corps (NCSDC), Kosefe division, Mr. A.O.
Odusina said that Police Anti- Bomb Detectors had earlier arrived and concluded
it was not a bomb explosion.
“The truth is that the damages to
houses and injuries to people were much, but we couldn’t trace this incident to
a bomb. It came from refrigerator gas cylinders kept in a shop,” said Odusina.
The hospital spokesman, Mr. Shina
Olaokpa, of Folabi Medical Center, where those injured were rushed to, said: “A
five-month-old baby and two male adults were rushed to this hospital. They had
injuries sustained during the explosion. The baby was referred to Gbagada
General Hospital, while the two men are responding to treatment in the
hospital.”
General Manager Lagos State
Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Mr. Michael Akindele, also said that it
was not a bomb explosion as feared by many.
New Telegraph
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