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27.04.2015 Headlines

Fuel Explosion Kills Two...Injures Others In Kumasi

By Samuel Appau Aheng, Kumasi
Fuel Explosion Kills Two...Injures Others In Kumasi
27.04.2015 LISTEN

Fuel explosion at a filling station at Kokodeh near Kwadaso-Agric in Kumasi last night led to the death of two children, wounded several others and burned vehicles belonging to some individuals.

The incident occurred late in the evening when fuel that was being off-loaded from a tanker into a reservoir underground exploded and set the fuel-carrying vehicle aflame.

The fire which could only be quenched completely by the sixth fire tender did not end at just burning to ashes the tanker but plunged the driver and others who were around the tanker during the off-loading into sustaining burns on different parts of their bodies.

The saddest aspect of the disaster occurred when the fire from the explosion gutted a slum near the filling station and burned to death some two boy-siblings of a single parent Joyce Gyawu.

Michael Owusu Yeboah, 8 and Raymond Yeboah who would be have been six years in August this year, met their untimely death while sleeping in the wooden structure with their sixteen year old sister who was able to escape the wrath of the explosion.

In an interview with Rejoice, the mother of Michael and Raymond, it was revealed that the kids had been living with their grandmother since school vacated somewhere last week, a step that has enabled the single parent mother to have enough time and attention for her petty trading.

She narrated that late in the evening yesterday the two brothers and their sister were sleeping in the grandmother's slum which was close to the Censter Filling station station where the explosion occurred, after the grandmother had left for church, when the fire descended on the wooden structure and burned her two sons to death.

Telling her side of the story, the sister of the deceased who was able to run for her life said after helping herself out of the wooden room, she shouted for the help of the people around to save her brothers but nobody responded because their attention were on the burning tanker and some vehicles that had also been set ablaze by the explosion.

It has been gathered that some two other vehicles that had been parked close to the Censter Filling station got burned down through the explosion.

The registration number of the fuel tanker is AS 6633-13

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