“They are just gone like that”.
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Some occupants of one of the affected buildings, Obinna Okeke and Emmanuel Ezeani, said that their matriarch was burnt to death while the building was badly damaged.
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“Medics are still battling to save the lives of those who suffered various injures in the blast”, he said.
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He said no one knew what set off the explosion because “none of them that were there survived, now nobody has a good story of what actually happened”.
“Official reports show eight charred bodies were retrieved from the scene, while several people were injured and have been taken to the hospital”, he said by phone from Awka, the state capital.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Ali Okechukwu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that two bodies, a mother and her baby, were later recovered at a nearby building.
Okechukwu, who said a further six people were injured, added that an investigation into the explosion was under way.
The fire broke out on Thursday when the truck had stopped discharging gas. Another witness, Christopher Nwachukwu, said the blast might have been caused when employees started dispensing cooking gas from the truck without waiting for it to cool first.
‘The fire exploded like a bomb, and the whole gas station went up in thick, black smoke amidst an explosion from cooking gas cylinders, ‘ he said.
The explosion hit the Inter Corp Oil Limited LPG plant, which is owned by the Chikason Group, a Nigerian conglomerate.
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Also reacting to the differing death figure was the former Deputy Governor of Anambra State, Virgy Etiaba, who made a fact finding visit to Nnamdi Azikiwe Teaching Hospital Nnewi, where the bodies of the victims were said to have been kept.
