Scores of people were on Monday dismembered and several others sustained injuries, including third degree burns, as gas explodes in Lafia, Nasarawa state.
The survivors are already receiving treatment at the Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital in Lafia Nasarawa state.
The explosion which happened on Monday morning at about 10am, was said to be as a result of a gas leakage from Monaco gas refill station located in the premises of Natson petrol station.
An eye witness told our reporter that over 20 people were ablaze in an instant as cars on the road also caught fire burning the occupants.
He said: “The owner of the gas station took off to safety before the raging fire from the road eventually engulfed the petrol and gas stations burning them to ashes with all the persons in the station at the time.
Some of the victims of the inferno were conveyed by the officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) from the spot of the explosion to the hopsital.
Meanwhile the State House of Assembly has moved to outlaw and regulate the activities of gas dealers within urban cities across the state.
The Speaker of the House, Ibrahim Abdullahi disclosed this known when he led other members on an under spot assessment to Monaco Gas Station, Lafia over the gas explosion that claimed so many lives and destroyed properties worth millions of Naira on yesterday in Lafia, the state capital.
The speaker who commiserated with the victims and their families over the ugly incident. “We discovered that this morning, so many lives were loss, properties were destroyed because of this unfortunate incident but to cut it short I want to sympathized with those that loss their lives and also those that lost their properties, we are indeed very sorry for this very unfortunate incident”
