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In Photos: How Abule-Ado Community Lost Over 20 Lives, Buildings And Properties Worth Over N2bn To Gas Explosion
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In Photos: How Abule-Ado Community Lost Over 20 Lives, Buildings And Properties Worth Over N2bn To Gas Explosion

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March 21, 2020

It’s been six days since residents of Abule-Ado, a community near FESTAC in Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos, woke up to a deafening explosion on the morning of March 15, 2020 after a truck crashed into gas cylinders stacked in a gas processing plant. But the impact of the explosion and the tragedy it left in its wake will forever haunt the residents.

Until a visit to the community, it is easy to dismiss the extent of residents’ losses to the gas explosion as little, especially as the world – and Nigeria’s – attention is being distracted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

See the devastating impact of the explosion in the aerial view images exclusively obtained by Neusroom below:

An Administrator of the Bethlehem Girls College, Rev. Sister Henrietta Alokha died in the tragic incident.
An Administrator of the Bethlehem Girls College, Rev. Sister Henrietta Alokha died in the tragic incident.

 

A newlywed couple, Emmanuel and Chisom Udoakonobi, who were supposed to travel to Canada just two days after the tragic incident, were killed after the pillar of their building fell on their car. Chisom was three months pregnant. Photo: Emmanuel Udoakonobi

 

According to an incident report by Aerial Advantage, over 129 structures suffered high impact from the explosion. Many of them were totally brought to the ground. Photo: Aerial Advantage Global and OEA Consults.

 

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216 other structures experienced medium impact. Photo: Aerial Advantage Global and OEA Consults.

 

258 more structures experienced low impact. Photo: Aerial Advantage Global and OEA Consults

 

Several vehicles were also damaged beyond repair. Photo: Aerial Advantage Global and OEA Consults.
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