This evening, there was a report that there was a pipeline explosion at Isheri-Idimu community, Egbe-Idimu Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Lagos State on Sunday 25th April, 2021.

The fire outbreak left an uncertain number of people injured with lots of properties destroyed. After the fire outbreak from one of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipelines at Idowu-Egba area.

According to our correspondents, the explosion was suspected to have been caused by the activities of the pipeline vandals.

Reports have shown that the incident happened around 6:30pm leaving residents to run for safety.

Spokesperson of the state fire service, Mr. Amodu Sakiru attested to the event during an interview with our correspondents.