The blast happened on Monday in the southern River state’s Emohua district.
An explosion and fire at an illegal oil refinery site in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region killed at least 15 people, including a pregnant woman, residents and a local environmental rights group has reported.
Police confirmed the incident but did not provide details of what happened. Locals said most of the people who died had worked at the illegal refinery in the village of Rumucholu. Explosions at locally run refineries are common in the oil-rich but impoverished Niger Delta region, where where most of the nation’s oil facilities are targeted by chronic oil theft.
“The money they make from there in one or two days is more than what a civil servant can make in a year,” Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre executive director Fyneface Dumnamene said.
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