URGENT: Over 100 killed in gas plant explosion in Nigeria: media report
14:55, 25 December 2015
ABUJA. KAZINFORM Over 100 people were killed in a gas plant explosion in Nnewi, southeastern Nigeria, local media reported Thursday.
The explosion occurred Thursday morning local time at the Inter Corp Oil Limited plant, a subsidiary of Chikason Group, as a truck was discharging cooking gas without waiting for the mandatory cooling time, Vanguard daily reported.
The victims were locals who had come to fill up their gas cylinders and passersby.
Source: Xinhua