A gas explosion on Saturday
evening burnt down 14 shops and a pharmacy with one person injured.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
reports that the incident occurred at about 5:40 pm on Ibrahim Taiwo Road by
Abeokuta street in Kaduna.
Residents mobilised to put out the
fire before it spread further in the densely populated area.
Most of the shops affected by the
gas explosion contained kitchen equipment, gas cylinders and refiling
facilities.
The residents chased away fire service
personnel from the Kaduna State University who arrived over an hour after the
fire started.
One of the shop owners, Mr Ifeanyi
Eze said the fire started as a result of electrical surge which led to heavy
explosion in one of shops selling gas cylinders.
An eyewitness, Mr Samuel Emma said
immediately after the explosion, fire emerged from the shop, adding that the
owner was slightly burnt and was rushed to hospital.
“We don’t know his situation now,
but
from there, the fire extended to
the rest of the shops and only a few items were salvaged.
“We thank God no life was lost. We
called the fire service but for close to two hours we didn’t see them until one
fire service vehicle from Kaduna State University came and was chased away by
angry neighbors,”he said.
A resident, Hamza Ado said: “we
called the fire fighters but they didn’t come and when we called again we were
told that they had no water in their vehicles.
“It was the youth that fetched
water from all available sources to control the blaze.”
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