Management of Inter Corp Oil, a subsidiary of Chicason Group of Company, Nnewi, Anambra State, whose factory was involved in the Christmas eve gas explosion which claimed many lives and property worth millions of naira yesterday debunked the number of casualties.  Managing Director of the company, Mr. Linus Ilozue, who briefed newsmen at the company’s headquarters, stated that the casualty figures were grossly exaggerated and insisted that only eight persons died...adding that no staff of the company died in the incident...[The] Nigerian Association of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers on their part put the number of casualties at nine...after an assessment visit to the gas plant.