Read < 1minuteA general view shows the central business district in Nigeria’s commercial capital of Lagos, Nigeria February 10, 2019. REUTERS/Nyancho NwaNri
Two people were killed and some others injured in a gas blast at a shop in Lagos, Nigeria’s economic hub, local officials said Wednesday.
The explosion happened at around 6:58 p.m. local time (1758 GMT) on Tuesday at Ajao Estate area of Lagos, during which several shops were burnt, said Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, head of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency.
Ibrahim Farinloye, coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, told media that the explosion occurred due to a technician’s mishandling of a gas cylinder.
