The victims burned unrecognized.
Over One hundred people have died in an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in Nigeria’s Rivers area, local authorities and an NGO said on Saturday, according to the news agency Reuters.
“The fire spread at an illegal refueling site and more than a hundred people became unidentified,” the local authority said. Goodluck Opiah told Reuters.
Unemployment and poverty in the Nigerian delta have made illegal oil refining an attractive option. Crude oil is taken from the pipelines of large oil giants and refined in self-contained tanks.
Illegal oil refining has caused numerous accidents and further polluted the estuary.
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