Warri: At around 10.30 p.m. on Monday night, a big gas plant on the Effurun section of the Warri-Sapele route, Nelmic, caught fire.
At the time of publication, firemen were still struggling to put out the roaring inferno. According to unverified reports, some people may have died.
Gweke, a resident of the area, told the Vanguard that they saw balls of fire lit up the black sky from their dwellings, followed by a loud explosion.
“Several of us began racing out of our houses to see where the flames and explosion were coming from. We later discovered it came from a nearby gas plant.
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“I pray nobody died but I doubt it. This fire I am seeing must have taken some lives,” he ended.
The few vehicles on the busy Warri-Sapele road at that hour avoided that portion of the road.
Some persons were seen trying to catch scenes of the fire with their phones and uploading them on their social media accounts.
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