Calabar In Pain: Gas Explosion Victims Double To 60 As Hospital Buckles Under Pressure, Residents Say Fire Service Never Came
By Hotgist9ja News Desk | Breaking News Saturday morning started like any other in Calabar. People were going about their business along Edibe Edibe Street in Calabar South. Market women were setting up. Motorcycles were moving. Children were playing. Then a gas plant exploded. And nothing has been the same since. What began as reports of 30 casualties when Governor Bassey Otu visited the scene on Saturday has now doubled. The Cross River State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Henry Egbe Ayuk, visited the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital on Sunday and confirmed the grim update — over 60 people are now receiving treatment for burns of varying severity at UCTH's Accident and Emergency Department. Sixty people. In one explosion. In one street. On one Saturday morning. And according to at least one resident who spoke to journalists, when she tried to call the fire service during the blaze — nobody picked up. What Happened At Edibe Edibe — The Full Story The e...