{"id":19764,"date":"2020-01-05T15:58:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T15:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=19764"},"modified":"2020-01-05T15:58:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T15:58:23","slug":"kaduna-govt-gives-update-on-chikun-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kaduna-govt-gives-update-on-chikun-explosion","title":{"rendered":"Kaduna govt gives update on Chikun explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kaduna State Government has said the number of persons affected by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2020\/01\/04\/breaking-scores-feared-dead-as-explosion-rocks-kaduna\/\">Saturday\u2019s explosion<\/a>\u00a0could not be ascertained until investigations have been carried out.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner, Internal Security and Home Affairs, said this in an interview with NAN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSearch and rescue is in progress but we have had case of injured persons that have been rushed to the hospital for medical attention,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-27\"><\/div>\n<p>Aruwan assured that the state government would stop the operation of gas sales in residential areas.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Aboi, Director, Kaduna State Fire Service, said that the gas explosion took place in a compact place where there were shops operating.<\/p>\n<p>He said the situation was put under control by men of the fire service in combined efforts of the Police, Civil Defence, Red Cross and the Federal Road Safety Corps.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-28\"><\/div>\n<p>Aboi said those who sustained severe injuries as a result of the blast had been rushed to the hospital for intensive care.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00a0incident occurred at about 2:00 p.m. on Kachia road by Anguwn Boro in Kaduna.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kaduna State Government has said the number of persons affected by\u00a0Saturday\u2019s explosion\u00a0could not be ascertained until investigations have been carried out. Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner, Internal Security and Home Affairs, said this in an interview with NAN. \u201cSearch and rescue is in progress but we have had case of injured persons that have been rushed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":6617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1001,96],"class_list":["post-19764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-federal-government","tag-kaduna"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kaduna govt gives update on Chikun explosion - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Kaduna State Government has said the number of persons affected by\u00a0Saturday\u2019s explosion\u00a0could not be ascertained until investigations\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kaduna-govt-gives-update-on-chikun-explosion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kaduna govt gives update on Chikun explosion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Kaduna State Government has said the number of persons affected by\u00a0Saturday\u2019s explosion\u00a0could not be ascertained until investigations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kaduna-govt-gives-update-on-chikun-explosion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-05T15:58:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/KADUNA-STATE-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kaduna-govt-gives-update-on-chikun-explosion#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kaduna-govt-gives-update-on-chikun-explosion\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Kaduna govt gives update on Chikun explosion\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-05T15:58:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kaduna-govt-gives-update-on-chikun-explosion\"},\"wordCount\":179,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kaduna-govt-gives-update-on-chikun-explosion#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/KADUNA-STATE-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Federal Government\",\"Kaduna\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kaduna-govt-gives-update-on-chikun-explosion#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kaduna-govt-gives-update-on-chikun-explosion\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kaduna-govt-gives-update-on-chikun-explosion\",\"name\":\"Kaduna govt gives update on Chikun explosion - 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