Many people have sustained different degrees of injury after an explosion rocked parts of mile 3 market in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area, Rivers State in the early hours of today Monday, May 31.

Thankfully, no life was lost in the incident but many people who were running for safety were seriously injured.

The spokesman of the Rivers State Police Command, SP. Nnamdi Omoni, said the police were on their way to the scene of the incident to ascertain what transpired.