At least 20 young persons perished in a conflagration that erupted while they were scooping crude oil illegally in Nigeria’s oil-rich Rivers State.
Scores of critically injured were rescued and rushed to various hospitals for treatment.
The tragic incident occurred at Omoku village in Ogba/Egebema/Ndoni LGA on Sunday morning, December 24.
The youths busted a pipeline of a multinational oil company and were scooping the oil with buckets and fuel cans when the area suddenly went up in flames.
“It is a very terrible incident. Imagine the death of 20 people in such a time. We learned some youths bust a company pipeline,” a villager told the press.
“If you go to the General Hospital and other private clinics in Omoku, you will see many of the injured people scattered all over the place in both government and private hospitals taking treatment.”
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