[ 2017-05-10 ]

The multiple explosions in Takoradi happened on the morning of Tuesday May 9

Gas leakage caused Takoradi explosion
The multiple explosions in Takoradi on the morning
of Tuesday May 9 which injured 25 people including
five firefighters was caused by a gas leakage as
workers of Ghana Home Utility Manufacturing
Company attempted discharging fuel into a bottle,
Assistant Chief Fire Officer for the Western
Region, Obeng Dwamena Dankwa, has said.

“We are still investigating the fire but we know
they were discharging gas into a bottle at the
company. It is not a fuel station, it is a company
premises situated between Effia Nkwanta Hospital
and Poly junction…

The investigation has already started and the
people who were discharging the gas will be able
to tell us exactly what happened because
definitely they were discharging fuel into an
installed bottle over there…” he told Jonas
Ofori Yeboah on 12Live on Class91.3FM on Tuesday,
9 May.

The injured persons receiving treatment at the
Effia Nkwanta Hospital alone has risen to 65 as
some passers-by who heard the explosion in the
cause of running for their lives suffered various
degrees of injuries.

The fire, according to Daniel Dadzie, a local
reporter, started at the Ghana Home Utility
Manufacturing Company at about 7:45am.

It spread to an Olam depot next door and then to a
total filling station which caused a huge
explosion hurting some people and five fire
officers who were battling to quench the initial
flame at Olam and Ghana Home Utility Manufacturing
Company.

Some of the injured are also receiving treatment
at the GHAPOHA Hospital and the Takoradi European
Hospital. No death was recorded.

Source - classfmonline.com

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