Victims of the Friday night explosion at an illegal refinery in Imo state will be buried today.
The charred remains of the over 100 victims gathered at the illegal refinery located in a forest in
Abaezi community in the Ohaji Egbema Local Government Area of the state had been gathered
and are awaiting a mass burial by the state government.
The Head of Operations of the National Emergency Management Agency in the state, Ifeanyi Nnaji,
said that the mass burial would be carried out by the state ministries of Petroleum Resources and
Environment adding that none of the victims had been recognized as they were burnt beyond recognition.
According to the NEMA official , “It is a large market involving people from all parts of the country;
and since they burnt beyond recognition, it is very difficult to identify them. A family just came and saw one body,
which they said resembled one of their own and they carried it for burial according to
traditional rites.”
