Security officials in Ghana have confirmed that at least nine people dead in a gas explosion in the country’s capital Accra on Thursday night.
The explosion happened at a gas station in a community called La, close to the country’s international Trade Fair Center.
Several others have also been reported to have sustained various degrees of injuries in the incident.
The state newspaper Daily Graphic reported that an eye witness said that the gas explosion occurred at 5:30pm local time. The eye witness was quoted by the paper as saying “the explosion occurred and the fire just went up like a big curtain divided into two and spread into the trade fair”.
A spokesperson for the Ghana National Fire Service, Prince Billy-Anaglatey told Starr FM in Accra that investigations are still ongoing to ascertain the cause of the explosion.
The Member of Parliament-elect for La Dade Kotopon, where the incident occurred, Vincent Sowah Odotei told another local station Citi FM that “It is too early to ascertain what might have caused the incident. We still do not know the extent of the disaster. We do not have a clue”
In 2015 hundreds of Ghanaians died in a similar explosion at a filing station in Accra, the worst explosion in the country’s history.
Source: Africafeeds.com
