YENAGAO , April 25 — Charred bodies were left scattered among burnt palms, cars and vans yesterday after a weekend explosion which killed more than 100 people at an illegal oil refining depot on the border of Nigeria’s Rivers and Imo states.
The Nigerian Red Cross Society was on the scene yesterday to assess the blast, which destroyed a section of the Abaezi forest, which straddles the border of the Ohaji-Egbema Local Government Area of Imo state with Rivers state. The process has led to fatal accidents and polluted a region already blighted by oil spills in farmland, creeks and lagoons.
The border location is a reaction to a recent crackdown in Rivers on illegal refining in an effort to reduce worsening air pollution.
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