Death toll rises to six in Ghana gas station explosion
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The number of people killed in Saturday night's gas explosion at a fuel station in Ghana's capital city of Accra has gone up to six, with 35 injured, deputy spokesman of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) Prince Billy Anaglate said on Sunday.
According to Anaglate, the death toll keeps increasing as more casualty figures keep coming from the hospitals, saying the GNFS will communicate the new official figures later.
The explosion at around 7:30 p.m. local time (1930 GMT) began at a state-owned GOIL liquefied natural gas station and spread to a Total petrol station across the street at the city’s Atomic Junction, a witness said.
When a truck driver realized there was a leak, he immediately alerted people around, who had started running before the resounding double explosions sent fire balls into the sky, witnesses added.
"A significant number of people got injured and are receiving treatment in various health facilities, but unfortunately some have also passed away," Deputy Minister for Information Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah told reporters earlier.
All adjoining communities in the area of the incident have been working with rescue officials to bring the fire under control.