{"id":25295,"date":"2020-03-15T15:20:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T14:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=25295"},"modified":"2020-03-15T15:20:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T14:20:49","slug":"houses-burnt-vehicles-damaged-as-explosion-rocks-abule-ado-in-amuwo-odofin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=25295","title":{"rendered":"Houses Burnt, Vehicles Damaged As Explosion Rocks Abule Ado In Amuwo Odofin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pipeline explosion has occurred at the Abule-Ado area around Festac town in Amuwo Odofin Local Government area of Lagos State.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Houses Burnt, Vehicles Damaged As Explosion Rocks Abule Ado In Amuwo Odofin\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/91ufCp8Q7G4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe massive blast has reportedly rocked neighbouring areas, sparking a massive blaze that has destroyed nearby buildings including a school.<br \/>\nPlumes of smoke have been seen rising into the sky, but our correspondent on the scene says the area has been cordoned off.<br \/>\nAn eyewitness told our correspondent that a tipper offloading sand caught fire, which spread to a nearby pipeline, triggering the blast.<br \/>\nThe director-general of LASEMA Dr Femi Osanyintolu confirmed that the pipeline had earlier been vandalized by unknown persons.<br \/>\nMany nearby houses have been destroyed by the blaze while the explosion damaged buildings around the area and its environs.<br \/>\nThe Lagos State Fire Service says there are buildings on fire in Ado Soba, Abule-Ado, and Amuwo-Odo.<br \/>\nThe chairman of the local government area, Mr. Valentine Buraimoh told Channels Television on the phone that some children have been rescued from the collapsed school building.<br \/>\nBy <strong>Channels TV<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pipeline explosion has occurred at the Abule-Ado area around Festac town in Amuwo Odofin Local Government area of Lagos State. The massive blast has reportedly rocked neighbouring areas, sparking a massive blaze that has destroyed nearby buildings including a school. Plumes of smoke have been seen rising into the sky, but our correspondent on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":25296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[65,733,1273],"class_list":["post-25295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-fire","tag-lagos","tag-pipeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}