At about 1 am, however, there was an unusual occurrence. A deafening noise seized the atmosphere and the church roof collapsed on the worshippers.
The story would have been totally different if they were at their rented apartment at the time the explosion occurred. The blast completely destroyed the apartment and there was the likelihood that the walls would have collapsed on them if they had slept in it.
It was gathered that the truck in question was coming from Ibadan, heading to Auchi in Edo State. The first truck hired by the firm that owned the explosives was said to have developed a fault, hence another truck was called in to convey the explosives to the quarry firm in Edo State. He said: “Suddenly, the policemen shouted, ‘Everybody, run! Everybody run!’ As I was running, I heard a bang and noticed something in my abdomen. That was all I knew until I woke up in the hospital.”
“Other cars that parked near us were also affected. The people inside were injured. There were pieces of iron along the road. She said: “It happened around 1 am. When we got outside, we saw people everywhere. We got home and saw that our building had collapsed and we thanked God that we were not at home. If we were at home, our house would have fallen on us. I am a widow and don’t have anybody to help me.”A widow, Mrs. Temilade Ganiyu, brought out a bucket of iron scraps that destroyed their house. She said a block fell on her while she was trying to run away.
“We thought it was only our building. The truck’s propeller is inside the church. Our building has been destroyed. The effect broke my house into 10 parts. My daughter was also injured. A special police investigation team set up by the Inspector General of Police and officials of the Nigeria Geological Survey Agency have begun investigation into the incident, following argument by the Head, Media and Corporate Communications of National Space Research and Development Agency , Dr Felix Ale, that the explosion could be a natural phenomenon of a suspected fall of a meteor from an asteroid belt on great speed from space.
He said: “If the momentum of the meteorite can be estimated, then energy released on impact can be calculated. The energy yield will have a particular waveform in form of Seismic Signal Strength recorded by a remote Seismometer . “On 27th March, 2020 at 12:57am, a bright fireball was observed over the city of Akure Nigeria and a big explosion with Sonic boom was heard about one minute later by many inhabitants.
“A preliminary in situ vibration, noise, seismicity, water analysis, radioactivity studies, rock and soil investigation were carried out. No evidence of fire or burning of anything was found within the vicinity. No evidence of radioactivity radiation was found within the crater and immediate vicinity.
“Furthermore, we reasoned that to create a 21 x 7.8m crater that we saw, if we are to follow and accept the police account , we worked with three possibilities:b) 1200 kg of IED required“Based on NASA information that Meteor may likely fall on the entire earth space between 19th and 28th March, 2020, we have been on the lookout. Also, only one loud noise was heard when the impact occurred accompanied with shock wave.
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