{"id":486383,"date":"2022-04-25T09:26:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T03:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=486383"},"modified":"2022-04-25T09:51:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T04:21:59","slug":"over-100-people-killed-in-explosion-at-nigerian-illegal-oil-refinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/over-100-people-killed-in-explosion-at-nigerian-illegal-oil-refinery\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 people killed in explosion at Nigerian illegal oil refinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 people have been killed following an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in Nigeria&#8217;s southern state of Imo, official and local sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion occurred late Friday at the illegal oil refinery in Egbema local government area, a boundary area between the southern states of Imo and Rivers, an official added on Saturday, confirming more than 100 killed so far, Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a fire outbreak at an illegal bunkering site affecting over 100 people burned beyond recognition,&#8221; Goodluck Opiah, the Commissioner for Petroleum resources in Imo, told Xinhua.<\/p>\n<p>Opiah said unidentified burned bodies littered the area, disclosing that the government had already declared wanted the operator of the illegal oil refinery, who is said to be currently absconding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 people have been killed following an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in Nigeria&#8217;s southern state of Imo, official and local sources said. The explosion occurred late Friday at the illegal oil refinery in Egbema local government area, a boundary area between the southern states of Imo and Rivers, an official added on Saturday, confirming more than 100 killed so far, Xinhua news agency reported. &#8220;There was a fire outbreak at an illegal bunkering site affecting over 100 people burned beyond recognition,&#8221; Goodluck Opiah, the Commissioner for Petroleum resources in Imo, told Xinhua. Opiah said unidentified burned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}