Director-General of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency Dr Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu said the agency has responded to the fire the explosion caused.
A gas tanker
exploded on Thursday at the Cele Bus Stop in Ifako-Ijaiye LG area of Lagos,
causing many injuries and destroying properties.
The injured
were reported to have suffered various degrees of burns.
“The Agency
has activated its response plan to the fire incident at Cele Bus Stop,
Ifako-Ijaiye LGA and will provide further updates. Lagosians are urged to
kindly exercise calm”, Oke-Osanyintolu wrote on Twitter.
Posts on
Twitter gave the precise location of the blast as Iju-Ajuwon Road.
From online
reports, the accident happened at a gas station and many properties nearby the
epicentre were engulfed by the spreading fire.
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