

The post on Instablog9ja further explained that: “It was gathered that a fellow tenant had wanted to prepare food and used his phone torchlight for illumination before striking a match to ignite his gas cylinder, which immediately exploded, killing him and Udosen.” The unfortunate incident was said to have occurred on the 6th of October, 2021, along Nwanniba Road, Uyo, just a day to the footballer’s birthday. On instablog9ja, the talented footballer was alleged to have died a day before his birthday due to a gas explosion that was triggered by the torchlight on his phone. There have been various claims on social media about a gas explosion caused by a phone torchlight about which a young talented footballer identified as Enwongo Derick Udosen and two other persons have attracted the sympathy of online users on various social media platforms. So it is not the rays of light from a phone that causes an explosion when it comes in contact with leaking gas but a spark in the phone. Verdict: Radiation from a mobile phone can cause an explosion when it meets on a parallel line with the radiation from a leaking gas cylinder. Radiation from phone, not torchlight, causes gas explosionĬlaim: A post on Instablo9ja points to phone torchlight as the cause of a gas explosion that killed a footballer a day before his birthday.
