This can be termed as another horror precedent to the celebration of the Yuletide season as an industrial gas plant suddenly exploded on Thursday, December 24, in the industrial town of Nnewi, Anambra State. According to eye witnesses and several reports, over 100 people were unconfirmed to have burnt to death.
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| Eye witnesses at the site gas explosion |
The explosion occurred at Chikason Group gas plant in Nnewi just few hours to Christmas.
According to an eyewitness, the incident started at about 11a.m. and was caused by an explosion that happened because a truck discharged its contents without waiting for the mandatory cooling time. At the same time, customers were said to be refilling their gas cylinders.
The source claimed that all customers who were at the gas plant had been burnt to ashes. People who were in the neighborhood and passers-by reportedly were also caught in the inferno.
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| Site of the Gas explosion |
The deceased and victims with heavy burns were taken to Nnamdi Azikwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi. The heavy inferno did not allow rescue workers gain assess into the factory where victims in their hundreds were allegedly trapped.
Surprisingly, this horrific incidence has not been reported during the broadcast of the various terrestrial televisions today. Someone would have termed this incidence a breaking news giving to the numbers of casualties that had be reported by eye witnesses. Is it now a thing of irrelevance to report the deaths of tens of Nigerian inhabitants simply because the country has witnessed much deaths through the Boko Haram insurgency? How could a wholesome of deaths of over a hundred citizens of a country be ignored by the major television stations in the country? Has death become this cheap and could easily be neglected or ignored in the Nigerian society?
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