Scores of residents, including school children, were trapped in buildings as the explosion shook the area and nearby places.
NNPC said on sunday that the incident occurred after a truck hit some gas cylinders stacked in a gas processing plant located near the corporation’s system 2B Pipeline Right of Way.
He disclosed that the NNPC had already mobilized its in-house combined team consisting of health, safety and environment experts, medical and security personnel from its nearby Satellite Depot in Lagos, even as Lagos State Fire Service was also rallied to extinguish the fire. NNPC boss, Mele Kyari, and other top management of the corporation departed to Lagos Sunday evening for an on-the-spot assessment at the scene of the incident.
Neither the NNPC nor the fire service and the police have provided a figure on the casualty from the fire.President Muhammadu Buhari has since commiserated with families who lost loved ones, and all those affected by explosion.
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