No fewer than eighty persons including customers who
went for refill in preparation of the Christmas, neighbours and passers-by were
burnt to death at the commercial city of Nnewi in Anambra state on Thursday following
an inferno which resulted from an unexpected gas explosion.
The charred bodies of the victims were later moved to the morgue
at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, NAUTH, in Nnewi while
others partially injured admitted for treatments. According to an eye witness,
the flames allegedly didn’t allow rescue workers into factory where a high
population of helpless workers was trapped.
The tragedy which shook an LPG Gas Plant, owned by Inter Corp
Oil Limited, believably a subsidiary of the Chikason Group started at the
process of a discharge by a truck. The incident suddenly turned the commercial
city into a mourning mood as weeping and dirge characterized the environment. A
relative of one of the deceased victims wept uncontrollably stating that he was
supposed to go for the refill together with the deceased, but was delayed in
the traffic. He concluded that the incident was his first encounter of losing a
close relative in such a horrific circumstance.
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