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| Infernal explosion shakes ground, sends 1,000s fleeing in Ghana (PHOTOS, VIDEO) | Infernal explosion shakes ground, sends 1,000s fleeing in Ghana (PHOTOS, VIDEO) |
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| A gas station has exploded in Ghana's capital, Accra, sending an enormous fireball into the night sky and sending thousands of people fleeing the scene. | A gas station has exploded in Ghana's capital, Accra, sending an enormous fireball into the night sky and sending thousands of people fleeing the scene. |
| Videos and photographs posted on social media showed giant flames and a nuclear-like mushroom cloud rising at the fatefully-named Atomic Junction near the University of Accra. | Videos and photographs posted on social media showed giant flames and a nuclear-like mushroom cloud rising at the fatefully-named Atomic Junction near the University of Accra. |
| “Unfortunately, there are some fatalities and we are working to have the numbers,” Ghana's deputy information minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, told a local radio station, adding that "quite a number" of people were injured in the explosion. | |
| At least six fire trucks and several ambulances responded to the blast, Reuters reports. According to the deputy minister, the initial blaze is now largely under control. | |
| The initial explosion took place at about 7:30pm local time at a gas station owned by Ghana Oil Company Ltd, and then spread to a Total petrol station across the street. | |
| In 2015, about 100 people were killed in a petrol station explosion in Accra, as they sought shelter nearby from massive flooding. |