CBN CALABAR- EIGHTEEN people were on Friday morning roasted while others sustained third degree burns in an inferno at the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, following an explosion at the premises of the Bank located at Calabar Road by
the Millennium Park .
The explosion which took place at about
11.45 am set the main edifice of the bank on fire effectively trapping many staff and visitors which occasioned for the high casualty fire. When Vanguard & GbeduXclusive visited the scene at 12 noon, a team of mobile policemen and soldiers assisted by nurses and personnel of the Nigeria Security
and civil defense Corps were seen keeping guard over the place while officials of the Federal and
State Fires Services were putting out the fire and rescuing those trapped in the building.
“I cannot give exact figures of how many people are dead but many people were burnt beyound
recognition while many sustained third
degree
burns; rescue operation is going on to
ensure
everyone is brought out soon” An Official of
the
Federal Fire Service at the Calabar Airport
told
our reporter.
He said the source of the explosion is not
known
but it is speculate to be some locally made
improvised device while some say it is the
gas
tank at the generator house that exploded.
Ambulances from the University of Calabar
Teaching Hospital, UCTH and General
Hospital
Calabar were brought in to evacuate the
dead
and those wounded while rescue efforts
were
being made to extricate those still inside.
No official of the bank was willing to speak
to the
press on the cause of the inferno but the
Assistant Inspector Genral of Police, A I G
Zone
six, Mr Baba Bolanta said so far eighteen
persons were casualty “but no death has
been
recorded” He said.
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