Gas explosion kills three in Imo state
A gas explosion has killed three persons at the Okpokiri filling station, Orji town in Owerri North council of Imo state . According to witnesses, the incident damaged part of the filling station on Monday. It also destroyed part of a bank and primary schoolbuilding close to it. Further report showed that the explosion occurred around 5:45 pm with many thinking it was a bomb that had been detonated. "Initially i did not know that it gas refilling tank at the filing station that had exploded we thought that it was a bomb because of the loud noise which even shattered glass windows around the area,” a witness simply known as Emenike told Daily Sun. “Explosion killed three of the workers at the filling station as their bodies were scattered every where around the filling station.”