By Mariama Njie
Gas explosion at Haadem Gas industry on Sunday evening, has causes massive destruction to nearest enterprises around the gas house at Kanifing.
The explosion started at Hadeem Gas industry as a result of some leakages of gas all over the environment which affected and destroyed nearest enterprises around.
Jarral Tunde Corr, a worker at Hadeem Gas told The Voice that the fire started Sunday evening around 6pm.
He explained that they were offloading a gas from 20-ton tanker to another 20-ton tanker, so along the line the pipe fitting had leakages which result to the explosion of the gas scape.
“When the gas escapes it turn white, which we were trying to stop but unfortunately the leakage was out of control and we could not help out to an extend that all we can do is to run for safety’’, he lamented.
According to him, the fire started outside the industry right inside.
“This place is an industrial area, as you can see there are many enterprises around, the garage opposite us is all burnt to ashes, the store on our left hand side, the J-mart furniture and the Sofia milk Store were all affected due to this explosion’’, he revealed.
Abdourahman Jallow, Manager of Red One/S. R garage lamented that about 108 cars got burn to ashes and that 95% of the vehicles are owned by the customers who brought their cars for repairer.
“It is indeed a great lost for us and all my co-workers, the other enterprises as well,” he said.
He urged the government to re-allocate the gas place to a situated area, adding the said all these companies got burnt due to the result of the gas house.
