The untold stories of Nasarawa gas explosion

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The danger in setting up gas stations in wrong places was brutally witnessed by Nigerians in Lafia, Nasarawa State last Monday, when an explosion in a gas station claimed about nine lives. JOSEPH ENNA reports on the human errors that caused the tragedy and how hoodlums profited from other people’s misery.

MONDAY, September 9, 2018 will forever remain indelible in the minds of people of Nasarawa State, particularly residents of Lafia the state capital as a result of the gas explosion that affected scores of people and caused destruction of properties worth millions of naira.

One of the victims of the explosion was a pregnant woman, who was so badly burnt that she had to undergo emergency caesarean section to save the life in her womb. Though when Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura visited the victims in hospital on Wednesday he said the baby had died. Sunday Tribune sources…



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