The details of how the Chairman of Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission, Prof. Simon Mallam, met his death during the gas explosion, which killed five others at Sabon Tasha area of Kaduna metropolis has emerged.
According to The Nation, it said it gleaned from sources that Prof. Simon was at Sabon Tasha to have a haircut close to the gas shop when the incident happened.
“After he returned from the village for the Yuletide, he went to have a haircut in preparation for the Sunday service and subsequent movement to Abuja.
“We learnt that he had just finished having his haircut when the gas exploded from the next shop to the barbing salon. The professor and three others died instantly. Two others died later,” the paper quoted a source as saying.
It was also gathered that the deceased Professor of Physics had just returned from United States.
