Published on : 24/04/2022 – 11:07
In Nigeria, at least 80 dead, it is the assessment of an explosion which takes place Friday evening, in an illegal oil refinery in the State of Rivers, in the South of the country. “We have found at least 80 seriously burned bodies,” a local official from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) told AFP on Sunday, April 24, adding that the toll could still increase. . Saturday, the announcement made by the authorities reported about 100 dead, without further information on the exact circumstances of this explosion. Clandestine refining is widespread in the oil south of Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer, where pipelines are regularly sabotaged, with thieves refining the collected crude oil to sell on the black market.