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Explosion at Nigerian illegal oil refinery kills more than 100

Crude oil spills from a pipeline in Dadabili, Niger state [File: Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters]

More than 100 people were killed overnight in an explosion at an illegal oil refining depot in Nigeria’s Rivers state, a local government official and an environmental group said.

“The fire outbreak occurred at an illegal bunkering site and it affected more than 100 people who were burned beyond recognition,” the state commissioner for petroleum resources, Goodluck Opiah, said on Saturday.

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