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Six persons were killed and scores injured yesterday when two gas plants went up in flames in Magodo and Badagry, Lagos.
Two persons died and eight others were injured in the Magodo explosion. Four were killed and scores injured in the Badagry incident.
Witnesses blamed leakages for the incidents at Second Coming Nigeria Limited Gas Plant on CMD Road, Magodo and a shop on Iluda Road, Ajara Vevho. According to them, emission from the exhaust of a passing vehicle caused the Magodo explosion.
The Badagry explosion while the shop owners were offloading cooking gas around 9am.
Vehicles, six buildings near the shop and six gas cylinders were destroyed in the explosion.
