Illegal Nigerian oil refinery blast kills at least 37 people

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At least 37 people, including two pregnant women, were burned to death after a blast at an illegal oil refinery in southern Nigeria, a local security official and community leader said on Tuesday.

“Nobody is happy because they have been shouting about all these things, for them to stop. The soldiers, the police, the civil defence have been trying, still yet they refused,” the community’s chief security officer Rufus Weleke said.

Illegal refining is common in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria as impoverished locals tap pipelines to make fuel to sell for a profit. The practice, which can be as basic as boiling crude oil in drums to extract fuel, is often deadly.

According to Reuters, a witness saw the charred remains of 15 people in an open space surrounded by burnt palm trees and a motorbike in the Ibaa community of Rivers State.

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