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No pupil died in Abule Ado gas explosion
None of the 268 pupils of Bethlehem Girls’ College died in Sunday’s multiple explosions at Abule Ado, Lagos State.
This was revealed by the Catholic Archdiocese’ Education Director Jerome Oduntan on Tuesday.
He said all the students were rescued and 50 of them who sustained injuries taken to the Nigerian Navy Reference Hospital (NNRH), Ojo.
Of the 50 pupils, Oduntan said only three were still on admission at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Golden Cross Hospital, Festac and NNRH.
He gave their identities as Chidinma Agubuisi (LASUTH), Chidera Oku (Golden Cross) and Ogochukwu Nnaji (NNRH).
“None of my students died. They have all been accounted for. Yes, the three bodies recovered on Monday were from the school premises and were workers,” he said.
A memorial will be held on Monday for the school’s headmistress Sister Henrietta Alokha, who died while rescuing the students.
“There is no burial date yet but a memorial for her has been fixed for 11 am on Monday, March 23, at Maryland,” Oduntan said.
Our reporter learnt that the number of those affected in the explosions has surpassed 340.
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