Lagos explosion: Ohanaeze, residents reacts as Reverend Sister, 16 others confirmed dead
which occurred at about 9.00 a.m. on Sunday morning killed at least 17 people and destroyed more than 70 buildings including schools, churches, hotels and warehouses, Femi Oke-Osayintolu, Director-General of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency said.
The Bethlehem Girls School, owned by the Catholic Church, were among buildings reduced to rubbles as couple and a Catholic reverend sister were among those feared dead. Reacting, Chief Solomon Ogbonna, the President of Ohaneze Ndigbo in Lagos State, called on the state government to conduct a thorough investigation into the explosion.“I am calling on the Lagos State Government to investigate this and not dismiss it as a mere gas explosion.One of the residents, Mr Japheth Okafor, told the NAN that he narrowly death from the explosion.“Before the explosion, the sky changed to white and we started perceiving gas odour; few minutes after, there was an explosion.
The impact of the explosion was felt kilometres away in Lagos as windows , doors of houses were shattered.from activities around an oil pipeline.
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