PHOTOS: A closer look at the impact of the Abule Ado explosion
On arrival at the site of the gas explosion yesterday, March 15, one man whose friend lived in the Abule Ado area of Lagos, where the incident occurred was bewildered as he made calls to know where to pass through to fetch him and his family.
“Watching this on TV, you will think it’s a small thing,” he gestured as he jostled to make a phone call. “Tony, where should I pass? I packed my car down the road. You people should start coming out,” he said in Igbo.
He was lost in conversation with some friendly strangers among the crowd as he kept shouting, “chai…chai”. Many people who never visited the site of the explosion, are oblivious of the extent of damage done to the area.
To get a closer view of the incident, which reportedly killed 17 people, including the Principal of Bethlehem Girls College, Rev. Sister Henrietta Alokha and a family of four, Neusroom captured the impact of the gas explosion through the images below.
The incident which occurred opposite Bethlehem Girls College reduced the majority of the school to mere rubbles
The decimated gatehouse at Bethlehem Girls College in the Abule Ado gas explosion
Active fire at the explosion site. As of 7.00 pm yesterday, nearly 10 hours after the explosion, the fire was yet to go out.
Firefighters trying to put out the fire amid billowing smoke at the source of the Abule Ado explosion.
All the buildings in close proximity to the explosion site were severely damaged.
The battered hostel at Bethlehem Girls College, Abule Ado
Volunteers digging through the rubble at the Bethlehem Girls College to rescue possibly trapped students.
Residents evacuating the area as they insist that the incident was a bomb attack.
The Federal Fire Service operatives succeeded in containing the spread of the fire to the explosion site.
