A cooking gas has exploded at Ajao estate, Lagos, injuring many and destroying properties.

According to reports, at least two yet-to-be-identified persons were killed after cooking gas exploded at a shop on Afariogun Street, adjacent the Faith City Hospital, in the Ajao area of Lagos State.

According to reports, the cooking gas explosion started from a shop used in refilling gas and in the process, affected no fewer than nine shops in the area.

The accident was said to have happened after a 62-year-old woman, who runs a cooking gas shop and her 32-year-old daughter were called back to their shop to attend to a “regular customer” who came to fill a gas cylinder.

However,  when the customer tried putting the gas cylinder into a waiting tricycle, it fell and exploded.

The Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, who confirmed the incident, said the fire had been extinguished and that the bodies of the deceased persons have been evacuated from the scene of the incident.

A yet-to-be-identified victim was said to have been rescued by emergency responders and taken to the hospital for treatment.

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