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Fri May 21 2021
The raging gas explosion yesterday rocked the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, Ogun State, killing two persons.
An eyewitness told our correspondent that yesterday’s explosion occurred around 11 am at the Marquee Event Centre within the presidential library.
It was further gathered that technicians were topping up gas into the air condition of the event centre when it exploded.
A worker who spoke with
Daily Trust said two people were killed in the explosion.
But the Managing Director at OOPL, Vitalis Ortese, while confirming the incident, said only a technical vendor died with his assistant sustaining injuries.
ABEOKUTA – A gas explosion at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library has led to the death of a technician and the serious injury of another.
Confirming the incident in a statement issued on Thursday in Abeokuta, Mr Vitalis Ortese, the Managing Director, OOPL Ventures, said that the explosion occurred at the main event Marquee during the servicing of the air conditioning units.
Ortese said that the incident occurred at 11.00a.m. and the injured technician was immediately taken to the hospital for treatment while the corpse was deposited at the morgue.
The official said that the emergency team of the library with support from the state fire service had contained the fire arising from the explosion.