There are also 150 injured
At least one hundred people died in an overnight explosion in an illegal hydrocarbon refinery in the Abaezi forest in southern Nigeria. This was reported by a local government official and the NGO Youths and Environmental Advocacy Center.
The explosion occurred in the Ohaji-Egbema district in the state of Imo. According to the website of the Nigerian newspaper Punch, the hellfire, which panicked the population, also caused the destruction of six vehicles. Another 150 people with severe burns were rushed to villages for treatment, sources in the Nigerian newspaper ‘Daily Post’ reported.
Meanwhile, the owner of the illegal refinery is being sought. A correspondent from the ‘Punch’, who visited the place this morning, reported seeing no less than 50 corpses, charred to the point of being unrecognizable. The commissioner for oil resources of the state of Imo, Goodluck Opiah, did not confirm the death toll “because many relatives have taken away many bodies”.
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