Members of the Osun state chapter of the Rotary Club has been thrown into mourning following a cooking gas explosion which claimed the life of one of the club presidents, Opeyemi Omobolawa.
It was gathered that Omobolawa’s death which occurred in Osogbo the Osun state capital, came barely 48 hours after a gas cylinder explosion triggered by a phone call, killed three people in Sagamu area of Ogun State.
Sources in Osogbo disclosed that Omobolawa a trained nurse and President of the Rotary Club International, GRA, Osogbo, was said to have gone to the popular Grace Gas, Osogbo, to refill her cylinder, when she suddenly had a call and brought out her phone from her pocket to answer the call.
An eyewitness account reveals that the phone exploded instantly setting the woman and her car on fire, flung the cylinder to a far distance and injured some other people in the vicinity.
