Sat 23 April 2022:
Over 100 people were killed overnight in an explosion at an illegal oil refining depot in Nigeria’s Rivers state, according to a local government official and the NGO Youths and Environmental Advocacy Center (YEAC).
“The fire outbreak occurred at an illegal bunkering site and it affected over 100 people who were burnt beyond recognition,”the state commissioner for petroleum resources, Goodluck Opiah, said.
BREAKING 🇳🇬 Nigeria🇳🇬
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT ‼️♦️Video footage, aftermath of the explosion in an illegal Oil refinery at Abaezi forest, in Ohaji-Egbema.#Nigeria #Explosion pic.twitter.com/5HoOvF86U2
— Zaid Ahmd (@realzaidzayn) April 23, 2022
Unemployment and poverty in the Niger Delta have made illegal crude refining an attractive business but with deadly consequences.
Crude oil is tapped from a maze of pipelines owned by major oil companies and refined into products in makeshift tanks.
The hazardous process has led to many fatal accidents and has polluted a region already blighted by oil spills in farmland, creeks and lagoons.
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