{"id":25309,"date":"2020-03-15T22:59:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T21:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=25309"},"modified":"2020-03-15T22:59:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T21:59:26","slug":"lagos-explosion-how-reverend-sister-died-after-rescuing-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=25309","title":{"rendered":"Lagos explosion: How reverend sister died \u2018after rescuing students\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Henrietta Alokha, an administrator at Bethlehem Girls College, Abule Ado, Amuwo Odofin local government area of Lagos state, was among those who lost their lives in the explosion which occurred on Sunday morning.<br \/>\nThe National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA)\u00a0put the death toll at 15\u00a0as of Sunday evening.<br \/>\nTheCable had earlier reported how students were trapped in the boarding school, owned by the Catholic Church, during the fire outbreak that followed the explosion.<br \/>\nA mass celebration was ongoing in the school when the incident happened and\u00a0Alokha was reportedly among those who assisted trapped students to escape from the scene but when it was time for her to leave, she could not make it out alive.<br \/>\nDetails of her death are still sketchy but there are reports that some of the students also lost their lives in the incident.<br \/>\nNAN reported that at least 60 students who were rescued were taken to the Nigerian Navy Reference Hospital at nearby Satellite town, for treatment.<br \/>\nThe Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said a\u00a0truck which hit gas cylinders\u00a0around the corporation\u2019s pipeline right of way triggered the explosion.<br \/>\nMany houses were destroyed while vehicles got damaged in the explosion which reverberated across Nigeria\u2019s most populous city.<br \/>\nResidents and witnesses counter their losses. At the headquarters of the Lagos province 3 of the Redeemed Church of God (RCCG) located on 24 Road, Festac town, the explosion which occurred more than a kilometre away from the church premises, shattered glass windows, injuring worshippers.<br \/>\nA parish of the First Baptist Church near the RCCG parish also lost a part of its roof. The roof of a parish of the Living Faith Church (Winners Chapel) located at 7th avenue, Festac, was also blown off in addition to that of the Ark Parish of the RCCG at first avenue.<br \/>\nThe Odic Plaza, a motor parts mall and warehouse, Bush Bar Hotel, Green Horse Plaza which houses tyres, Arch Angel Catholic Church, Chino Plaza with many goods in it, and a mechanic village, all located inside the Trade Fair Complex, Ojo, were all hit by the explosion.<br \/>\nBy <strong>TheCable<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henrietta Alokha, an administrator at Bethlehem Girls College, Abule Ado, Amuwo Odofin local government area of Lagos state, was among those who lost their lives in the explosion which occurred on Sunday morning. The National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA)\u00a0put the death toll at 15\u00a0as of Sunday evening. TheCable had earlier reported how students were trapped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":25310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[674,1278,645],"class_list":["post-25309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-explosion","tag-henrietta","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25309","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=25309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}