Over 100 people have been killed following an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in Nigeria’s southern state of Imo, official and local sources said.
ABUJA, Nigeria — Over 100 people have been killed following an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in Nigeria’s southern state of Imo, official and local sources said on Saturday.
“There was a fire outbreak at an illegal bunkering site affecting over 100 people burned beyond recognition,” Goodluck Opiah, the commissioner for petroleum resources in Imo, told Xinhua. The explosion was suddenly heard in the forest between the states of Imo and Rivers, with thick smoke engulfing the entire area, according to Collins Ajie, a community leader and president-general of the Supreme Council of Oil and Gas Producing Areas in Imo.
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