One dead as explosion rocks Lagos



THE busy Marina end of Lagos Island was thrown into pandemonium yesterday when an explosion rocked the area.

Initially, people in the ever-busy axis thought members of Boko Haram were on the rampage.

Workers ran away from their offices and for close to one hour, confusion reigned supreme.
At least, one person was confirmed dead and several others injured when a substance suspected to be gas exploded off Shore Marina, spewing balls of fire into the air.
The explosion took place at 3:30p.m.

The incident occurred aboard a ship on Marina waters that is being worked on by an electric welder.

The explosion threw shrapnel that injured many people and damaged four cars at the car park of UBA.

The vehicles damaged in the incident included three Honda Civics with registration numbers, NQ 557KJA, LA510AAA, HT 478 EKY and a Hyundai vehicle.

Describing the incident, a source told the Nigerian Compass: “It was a very loud explosion aboard the ship. From the UBA building where I work, I could see, at least, a dead body being taken out from the ship and some injured”.

A few minutes after the blast, the ever-busy CMS Bus Stop, extending to Ajah Motor Park, was deserted by commuters and motorists.

All efforts to get response of the state police command proved abortive as the Public Relations Officer (PPRO,) Samuel Jinadu, refused to pick his phone calls and also failed to respond to text messages.

Some of those injured were immediately rushed to the General Hospital by officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA).
The ship has many cylinders emitting gases as Lagos State Fire Servicemen, who rushed to the scene 30 minutes after the incident, battled to quench the fire from the explosion.



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Is this true?

Babasessy:


Initially, people in the ever-busy axis thought members of Boko Haram were on the rampage.

Describing the incident, a source told the Nigerian Compass: “It was a very loud explosion aboard the ship.

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It was a very loud explosion which shook the building (directly opposite the ship) I was in at the time of the incident. Many of the occupants of the building thought it was a Boko Haram attack.

Babasessy:


The incident occurred aboard a ship on Marina waters that is being worked on by an electric welder.

A  few minutes after the blast, the ever-busy CMS Bus Stop, extending to Ajah Motor Park, was deserted by commuters and motorists.

These our journalists sef!

Shouldn't that be "was?"

That place is Leventis Bus Stop not Ajah! Ajah is kilometers away!

Babasessy:


The incident occurred aboard a ship on Marina waters that is being worked on by an electric welder.

The explosion threw shrapnel that injured many people and damaged four cars at the car park of UBA.

The vehicles damaged in the incident included three Honda Civics with registration numbers, NQ 557KJA, LA510AAA, HT 478 EKY and a Hyundai vehicle.

Oke-Osayintolu , the GM of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA)  claimed  on radio last night that no vehicles were damaged.

You should have heard him boasting about how his men to contained the situation.

The guy is FULL of hype. 

When the building collapse at Maryland occurred, he claimed (on a radio programme I listened to) that his men were at the building and evacuated the occupants before the building came down whereas the occupants insist that they had left the building on their own before the emergency team arrived.

He was also recently enmeshed in a controversy with those displaced last year by the overflow of Ogun River.

Someone should please call the guy to order.

Na only Boko Haram fit make bomb? You guy, u too de fear jo,

johnie:

It was a very loud explosion which shook the building (directly opposite the ship) I was in at the time of the incident. Many of the occupants of the building thought it was a Boko Haram attack.


These our journalists sef!

Shouldn't that be "was?"

That place is Leventis Bus Stop not Ajah! Ajah is kilometers away!





Oke-Osayintolu , the GM of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA)  claimed  on radio last night that no vehicles were damaged.

You should have heard him boasting about how his men to contained the situation.

The guy is FULL of hype. 

When the building collapse at Maryland occurred, he claimed (on a radio programme I listened to) that his men were at the building and evacuated the occupants before the building came down whereas the occupants insist that they had left the building on their own before the emergency team arrived.

He was also recently enmeshed in a controversy with those displaced last year by the overflow of Ogun River.

Someone should please call the guy to order.

if na u nko? the dude dey find promotion at all cost