Many people have reportedly been feared dead in an explosion that hit the Sabon Gari area of Kano State in the early hours of Tuesday.
Video footage making the rounds on the internet showed people scampering for safety and school children with various degrees of injuries.
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Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje in a statement issued by Commissioner for Information, Mohammad Garba, while calling for calm in the area assured that the government would keep the public abreast of any development of the explosion and warned Kano residents to desist from spreading unsubstantiated news.
However, the State Commissioner of Police, CP Sama’ila Dikko, who visited the scene of the explosion, said the sad incident occurred as a result of a gas cylinder explosion.