UPDATE
The Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano, yesterday, visited the casualties of “a petrol fire explosion” that occurred at Atani Road in the outskirts of Onitsha, the largest commercial city in South East Nigeria, last night.
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The governor arrived with his aides Toronto Hospital, Onitsha where thirteen people sustained various degrees of burns in the explosion.
The explosion was speculated to be a bomb.
He was quick to allay the fears of the residents on the incident and assure them that the state was safe.
He regretted that because of the prevailing scarcity of petrol, Nigerians had resorted to storing fuel in jerry cans in residential areas thereby exposing themselves to extreme danger and warned the people to desist from the habit of storing petrol in their homes as the consequences were often dire.
Meanwhile there is confusion as to the real cause of the explosion. An eyewitness and leader of the settlement, Alhaji Sabo Mohammed later informed the visiting Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations (DC-OPS), Mr. J.B. Kokomo; accompanied by DPOs of Okpoko Police Station (CSP Kayode Olabanji), Fegge Police Station (SP Rabiu Garba), Central Police Station (SP Mark Ijaradu), Nteje Police Station (SP Daniel Barnabas) and that of Inland Town Police Station that “a young man came to one of food restaurants located at the center of the settlement at about 8.30pm and demanded for a plate of food.
He quietly dropped two rubber-cans containing undisclosed fluid substances, took few spoonfuls of his ordered food, left the food unfinished as if he was going to ease himself and never came back. Few minutes after, there was a loud explosion hitting the food kiosk and injurying its customers”.
This empirical account is corroborated by those of other witnesses including victims. They sharply contradict police account or angle (explosion resulting from ignition of stored fuel in jerry-can).
The explosive devices only shattered and burnt the food kiosk. Other surrounding shanties, kiosks and nearby conventional buildings like SS Peter & Paul Catholic Church, the First Baptist Church, the Good News Hospital and a nearby four storey building were not affected. The initial figure given by the Nigerian Red Cross, Ogbaru Division, as it concerns the victims; was seven. It later rose to about 11.
Five were admitted at the Chioma Hospital in Ogbaru; one at the nearby Good News Hospital; one in critical condition with round-the-body bandages, was admitted at the nearby Multicare Hospital while others were admitted at the St Charles Borromeo Hospital in Onitsha and other undisclosed ones in Asaba, Delta State.
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But Mr Obiano advised Ndi Anambra to demonstrate greater safety consciousness by keeping all inflammable items away from their homes to avoid unpleasant occurrences.
The Governor also undertook to offset the medical bills of the casualties.
Also speaking at the hospital, Dr. Madu Nwankwo, a resident physician with Toronto Hospital explained that the victims who were rushed to the hospital at midnight on Tuesday sustained mostly superficial burns and assured that the casualties were all in a stable condition. download Japanese Jav porn Censorship and uncensored
Three casualties, two females aged 30 and 17 and a 25 year-old male were seen receiving attention at the hospital.
The explosion was reported to have occurred in a settlement known as Kara Market which is located along the Iyiowa axis of Atani Road.
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OUR EARLIER REPORT
An unprecedented bomb blast has hit Onitsha, the commercial nerve center of Anambra State.
The blast occurred in the early hours of Wednesday.
Several people were reportedly injured.
Rescue agencies were said to have moved in to render help shortly after the blast while a police team led by the Anambra State Deputy Commissioner of Police in Charge of Operations, Mr. A. J. Kokoma, were at the scene this morning.
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