Nigeria: Controversy Trails Apapa Explosion

Lagos — Controversy is trailing Wednesday evening's explosion that rocked Apapa, a port town in Lagos, where four people were reportedly killed.

Contrary to claim by police authority that it was a gas tanker explosion, evidence at the scene of incidence showed that it could only have been a bomb explosion. The explosion apparently emanated from a car, said to be Sienna, which was mangled, burnt beyond recognition. A tanker close by was, however, not burnt as only sooth from flames covered part of it.

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