At least five people were injured on Friday when a cooking gas section of the Nobpet Filling Station located opposite the Air Force junction in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, exploded and went up in flames.
It was gathered that fire from the explosion quickly spread and torched about eight vehicles belonging to a transport company close to the station.
Sources at the scene said it took the combined efforts of the Rivers State Fire Service and the Nigerian Air Force Fire Service to quench the inferno.
One of the victims, Emmanuel Ninyaegwu, a commercial driver, whose 18-seater bus was destroyed by the fire, said he was preparing to load his vehicle alongside his pregnant wife when th is explosion occurred.
He said: “I was getting ready to load my vehicle from Port Harcourt to Ebonyi State, when the incident occurred. As I was opening my car boot, I heard the sound and I fell down, got up and ran away. It damaged my vehicle. Some people got injured, including me, but nobody died.
“Some people, who got injured, were taken to the hospital. There was an ambulance that came in from the Air Force. They treated some people.
