Lagos
A gas explosion in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos killed at least 15 people, injured many more and destroyed around 50 buildings, emergency services said.
Houses, lorries, cars and motorbikes were torched in the blast. ‘15 bodies have been recovered now.
So many people have been injured,’ national emergency services spokesman Ibrahim Farinloye told AFP, adding that around 50 buildings were also destroyed in the explosion which was followed by a fire.
The blast happened at around 8:00 am (0700 GMT) destroyed around 50 buildings in the residential district of Abule Ado.
According to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) the blast was caused by a truck that ‘hit gas bottles stacked up in a gas processing plant.
‘The impact of the explosion was so huge that it led to the collapse of nearby houses and damage to an NNPC pipeline,’ the company added. ‘We are recovering dead bodies as we speak and putting them in bags,’ said local Red Cross official Adebola Kolawale.—APP
