The busy Creek Road, Apapa, Lagos was thrown into pandemoniun last tonight, when an explosion occoured at Folawiyo Fuel Depot.
It was gathered that the explosion occurred at about
8:30pm; affecting four buildings, including two banks. No fewer than four
people were killed in the explosion. At first people thought it was a bomb blast but Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Emergency
Management Agency, Mr. Kehinde Adebayo, who responded on behalf of the
Managing Director, Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu said that the loud noise accompanied by the fire explosion is “from a tanker
loaded with fuel.”
He said men of the LASEMA are now attending to that explosion and
fire on scene of the incident, and have found that it is not a bomb
blast.
He however, could not immediately tell whether or not there were
casualties, as the men were still making frantic efforts to contain the
fire.
The explosion had caused many residents to panic, fearing the loud explosion might be a bomb blast.
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