Scores were injured while many houses and shops were destroyed following a gas cylinder explosion in Babura Local Government Area of Jigawa State.

The incident occurred Monday night, September 12, when customs officers on border patrol allegedly shot at a tanker and it caught fire.

The Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, Jigawa Command, Adamu Shehu, confirmed the incident in a statement on Tuesday morning.

He said many houses and shops were burnt following the incident, adding that scores were injured, but no death was recorded yet.

"On Monday, 12th September, 2022, at about 2100hrs, a vehicle (Iveco van) laden with filled gas cylinders exploded in Babura LGA," the spokesman said.

"Many houses and shops burnt. Scores injured but no death recorded at the time of writing this release. The injured are currently receiving medical attention at General Hospital Babura.

"With the intervention of Fire fighters drawn from Hadejia LGA, security personnel and the community, the soaring fire was put under control.

"Circumstances leading to the explosion sketchy. Details will be made available in due course."



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Bomb

Shettima..Gumi...Sultan....hmmn

When will IPOB terrorists stop all these wickedness?

GAS CYLINDER INDEED

Why should a custom officer shoot a tanker in a first place...

Jamesbiodun:
Why should a custom officer shoot a tanker in a first place...

That is how to know a country that is "anyhow".

Security agencies are just careless in most of their dealings... shooting at a petrol tanker, inexperience at it's peak.

Let me take a seat at this corner and await those idiot that’ll fault the president and the president aspirant for this.

Wow, always be careful with gas. When the risk of apprehending a suspect is great, they should be left for another day. This makes little sense.

God abeg save us.

Foolish ipob miscreants will still find a way to link and blame Tinubu the best presidential candidate to this incident. Terrible people

This is too bad

Hmmm

I hope nobody died

Tinubuwins2023e:
Foolish ipob miscreants will still find a way to link and blame Tinubu the best presidential candidate to this incident. Terrible people

Tinubu is a common criminal
Kiss the truth

God abeg...

Let's not hear that it was a bomb as in the Kano incident.

This is very bad. We need Wike here please. As done in Sokoto, so will it be done in Jigawa.

Wetin concerns ipob in this matter?
ABI you too one be among the haters like them.
Let's be realistic about everything pls...!

VictorUSA:
When will IPOB terrorists stop all these wickedness?

Bad news everyday in the zoo

OBALOLA55:
GAS CYLINDER INDEED

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You all need to eschew this pessimism and embrace reality. Truly it is smuggler chased by customs that caused the problem. Amidst high cost of diesel in Nigeria many boarder communities are making fast money from smuggling much cheaper diesel from Niger Republic. Nigerian Govt banned the importation of the diesel but stll the smugglers are into it en masse. What is reported is what had happened!

Gas or shettima syndicate?

Them don toi dey use 'gas' as cover-up for explosions in the North o

Gas has started exploding in the northern region,may God help the innocent children that knows nothing about this conspiracy.

Food don land for Tinubu to go and donate billions of naira

It wasn't a bomb more than 30 cylinders of 50kg exploded.

This korntree na wa