A late Friday night gas explosion at a gas plant in Agbor, Delta State has reportedly left an unspecified number of persons dead and about six persons with varying degrees of burns. The explosion, it was gathered, erupted from Osadebe Gas Plant along the Benin-Asaba expressway, close to Eye Clinic Agbor, in the state. A source which described the loss as of great magnitude added that several houses close to the gas plant were reduced to ashes. A footage of the scene of the incident twitted by one @basseymoh_ indicated a huge inferno bellowing from the gas plant. The gas plant is close to Stevenson Hotel,” he noted.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 23, 2021 10:18 UTC