Another victim from Tuesday’s Ibadan explosion has been confirmed dead.
Daily Report Nigeria recalls that the Bodija area of the Oyo State capital was hit with a massive explosion that left many injured.
Giving an update on the incident on Wednesday evening, Governor Seyi Makinde confirmed that a third person had died from the blast.
The Governor, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today, also revealed that the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) certificate of a mining company indicted for the incident bore foreign names as owners.
READ ALSO: Controversies Trail Cause, Number of Casualties of Ibadan Explosion
Confirming that the death toll from the unfortunate blast had risen to three, Makinde said;
“We recovered one individual alive today (Wednesday) under the rubble. 60 of the 77 people hospitalised have been discharged,” the governor said.
“We are trying to uncover the identities of the people. We’ve done a few fact-finding on the company involved and yes, there are indeed some foreign names on the CAC documents of the company involved but these are still early days. We don’t have anything to cover,” he said.
“It is not anything that has to do with banditry and insurgency but illegal miners that stored explosives in a residential area,” the governor clarified.
The governor said those whose houses were destroyed had been provided temporary shelter in hotels in Bodija and in the Agodi areas of the state capital.
