BREAKING: Explosion rocks Kubwa gas outlet, motorist allegedly crashes into shop

An detonation astatine a state refilling outlet adjacent Liberty Junction successful Kubwa, Abuja, caused panic among residents early Sunday morning aft a occurrence broke retired astatine the facility.

The Federal Fire Service, FCT Command successful a connection said its firefighters and different exigency responders arrived astatine the country astatine astir 6:30am and contained the fire, preventing what it described arsenic a perchance large state explosion.

The blast reportedly shook adjacent buildings, uprooted signposts and overturned a postulation warden’s booth astir Liberty Junction.

Eyewitnesses who covered the incidental connected Facebook alleged that the occurrence started aft a motorist driving against postulation crashed into the state outlet wherever state cylinders were kept. The assertion has not been independently verified.

“The Federal Fire Service, FCT Command firefighters and different exigency responders today, Sunday 27th September 2026, astatine astir 6:30am swiftly responded to a state occurrence astatine Liberty Junction, Kubwa, Abuja, averting what would person been a large destructive state explosion,” the Fire Service said.

Additional occurrence work h2o tankers and operatives of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) were besides reported to person joined the exigency response.

Residents of adjacent areas, including Dantata Estate, said the explosi...