More than 800 people have been killed in 200 accidents involving petrol tankers since 2018
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The explosion had consumed five people, destroyed more than 120 vehicles and torched everything within a 500m radius. The April inferno was not Chette’s first experience of fuel tanker fires. In May 2022, a petrol tanker explosion on the same road claimed the lives of his younger brother, Maxwell, and those of several others.
Last August, the Foundation for Investigative Journalism found that more than 800 people have been killed since 2018 in more than 200 incidents of petrol-laden tankers catching fire across Nigeria. He said the company had closed 6,409 illegal refineries in the Niger Delta region alone and detached 4,846 illegal pipes connected to its pipelines but estimated that nearly 700 other illegal connection points were still syphoning.
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