Five people were killed and dozens injured following an explosion and fire at a gas station in Ghana’s capital Accra, the police and fire service said Friday.
“The situation is very serious,”
regional police commander Yoosa Bonga told AFP of Thursday night’s incident.
“We can’t immediately say what
caused the fire but we took several people to the 37 Military Hospital for
treatment but
unfortunately five people are dead.” A spokesman for the Ghana Fire Service, Billy Anaglatey, said “four bodies were retrieved from the streets and one on the premises of the gas station”.
unfortunately five people are dead.” A spokesman for the Ghana Fire Service, Billy Anaglatey, said “four bodies were retrieved from the streets and one on the premises of the gas station”.
He said some of the victims were
passers-by, adding that the fire also damaged a nearby school building.
A resident, Daniel Amissah, who had
just left the gas station before the explosion, said a leakage on the main gas
tank was suspected as the cause.
At least 150 people were killed in
June last year when a petrol station in Accra caught fire, with heavy flooding
contributing to the deaths as the blaze was believed to have spread from a
nearby residence via fuel on the floodwater.
Many people had sought refuge from a
seasonal downpour under the canopy of the petrol station when the flames
ignited tanks, causing an explosion and deadly blaze.
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