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An Indian Twitter user has narrated how his aunty died after her phone exploded while she was sleeping.
@Mdtalk16 said his Aunty kept her phone near her face before sleeping and it killed her after it exploded.
Four children identified as Uwa, Umar, Hussaini, and Abdullahi had to be hospitalized after suffering varying degrees of injuries after an unexploded ordinance went off while they were playing in their home in Ngala community.
Dogo Shettima, who is the Special Assistant to the Borno state Governor on Reconstruction Rehabilitation & Resettlement (MRRR), Humanitarian shared photos of the children in the hospital receiving treatment and said they are in their recovery stages.
“Uwa, Umar, Hussaini and Abdullahi were playing outside their home in Ngala, when they found a strange object.
Unaware of what it was, the children were curious. Unfortunately, the strange object turned out to be an Unexploded Ordnance (UXO).
Before they knew it, it had detonated.The boys suffered severe injuries and were immediately transported by the @ICRC_Nigeria helicopter to the State Specialist Hospital in Maiduguri.
The children received life-saving surgical care at the hospital, and they are at the recovery stage now.
The use of explosive weapons in populated areas is very likely to have indiscriminate effects and pose a great risk to the general population. Children are at high risk of death, injury, mental trauma and disability when they live in proximity to Unexploded Ordnance.
It is also important to remind children to avoid picking up suspicious and unknown objects. In fact, children and adults alike should not move suspicious and unknown objects from where they find them, inform or call for assistance from community leaders and the authorities.”
Not less than nine people were injured in a blast on Sunday at a plant producing explosive materials in Iran’s central province of Isfahan, ISNA news agency has reported.
According to the Head of the province’s crisis management organisation, Mansour Shisheforoush, the reason for the blast, which occurred at Sepahan Nargostar Chemical Industries at 4:00 am local time (2330 GMT) was unclear and still under investigation.
He said the nine factory workers that were injured had been taken to hospital, while several investigative teams were currently working to determine the cause of the blast.
Meanwhile, the plant is located about 45 kilometres northwest of Isfahan city.
The company manufactures “industrial-commercial explosive materials” and was established in 1941, according to its website.
Not less than 20 people have been killed while 600 were injured after four powerful blasts hit the Nkoa Ntoma military camp in the economic capital Bata in Equatorial Guinea on Sunday, the state television reported.
The TVGE channel broadcast footage of wrecked and burning buildings, with people, including children, being pulled from the rubble and the wounded lying on a hospital floor.
The first blast reportedly occurred in the early afternoon and in the early evening with the TVGE referring to heavy “casualties” but said it had not determined whether there were any fatalities.
We heard the explosions and we saw the smoke, but we don’t know what’s going on,” one local resident, Teodoro Nguema, said on television.
The camp houses, among others, elements of the army’s special forces and the paramilitary gendarmerie, a journalist said.
Bata is the largest city in the oil and gas-rich nation, with around 800,000 of the nation’s 1.4 million population living there, most of them in poverty.
While it sits on the mainland, the capital Malabo is on Bioko, one of the country’s islands off the West African coast.
Equatorial Guinea has been ruled by 78-year-old President Teodoro Obiang Nguema for nearly 42 years while his son, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, described as jet-setter, the vice president with responsibility for defense and security, often appearing on television accompanied by his Israeli bodyguards.
In December last year, the UN’s top court found in favor of France in a bitter battle over a swanky Paris property seized in a corruption probe into Teodorin.
Opposition figures and international organizations regularly accuse Obiang of committing human rights abuses.
The authoritarian leader has seen off at least half a dozen assassinations or coup attempts to become Africa’s longest-serving leader.
One person was confirmed dead on Tuesday in a fuel tanker explosion in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
An unspecified number of people were injured while several cars and houses were razed in the incident,
The tanker explosion, which occurred at about 8:15 a.m. along the Presidential Boulevard Road in Kuto, Abeokuta, was said to have thrown the area into confusion
Eyewitness told journalists at the scene that the accident occurred when the tanker which carried 33,000 litres of fuel had a brake failure and crashed into the cars before bursting into flames.
According to them, the tanker was coming from Sagamu-Siun-Oke-Mosan Road had climbed the overhead bridge and suddenly lost control while descending from the bridge.
The tanker reportedly hit a motorcycle which was in motion before ramming into some commercial vehicles waiting for passengers at the end of the bridge.
The fire spread to a few offices around the area and caused pandemonium as many motorists tried to escape from the carnage.
Some parents whose kids were on their way to schools were also thrown into panic as they rushed to the scene to see if their children were affected in the incident.