Gas explosion in Obasanjo Library kills technician, another seriously injured

A technician was killed in an explosion on Thursday at the Marque Event Centre, Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) Complex, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
An official of the OOPL, who pleaded anonymity, said that the explosion occurred when technicians were topping up gas into the Air Condition (AC) at the event centre.
Men of the Anti-Bomb squad of the Ogun State Police Command were seen combing the place.
Later, Mr Vitalis Ortese, the Managing Director, OOPL Ventures, confirmed the incident, saying that the explosion occurred at the main event Marquee during the servicing of the air conditioning units.
Ortese said that the incident occurred at 11 a.m. and an injured technician was immediately taken to the hospital for treatment while the corpse was deposited at the morgue.
The official said that the emergency team of the library with support from the state fire service contained the fire from the explosion.
He said that visitors into the complex were temporarily limited to contain any fallouts from the explosion while the fire service put out the fire.
Ortese said that normalcy has, however, been restored after the area was cleared  by the fire service.
He noted that this was the second incident of an explosion in Abeokuta in the last one week arising from gas air condition unit and appealed to the authorities to investigate the causes.
A similar incident had occurred at former Governor Gbenga Daniel’s hotel in Abeokuta.