TRAGEDY AS 100 BURNT TO DEATH IN NNEWI GAS EXPLOSION

Some Burnt Vehicles after the fire disaster

            

INDUSTRIAL town of Nnewi, Anambra State was, yesterday, plunged into mourning when over 100 people were burnt to ashes in a fire disaster, which occurred at Inter Corp Oil Limited (an LPG gas plant).

Eyewitness accounts said the fire, which started at about 11:00am, was triggered by an explosion which occurred when a truck attempted to dis- charge its contents without waiting for the mandatory cooling time while customers were said to be refilling at the same time.

All the people at the gas plant were allegedly burnt to ashes while some of the victims who were in the neighbourhood and passersby were caught in the inferno.

Burnt remains and other badly burnt people were rushed to Nnamdi Azikwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi, while the heavy inferno did not allow rescue workers gain assess into the factory where the majority of the victims allegedly to be in their hundreds, were trapped.