About twelve persons were Thursday killed in a crude oil pipeline fire explosion along the Tebidaba-Azuzuama trunk line in the mangrove swamp of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.
Several others including two soldiers on guard duty were missing as at press time. The identity of the deceased persons could not be ascertained as they were burnt beyond recognition.
The charred bodies have been deposited at the morgue of the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri in the outskirts of Yenagoa, the state capital.
The tragic incident occurred Thursday at about 4pm at the facility owned by the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) as work was on going to clamp a leaking section of the crude oil bearing pipeline.
It was gathered that Agip personnel, officials of Bayelsa State Ministry of Environment, National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) and other stakeholders were at the site on a Joint Investigation Visit (JIV) when the explosion occurred.
An indigene of Azuzuama, Dennis Dumde said twelve bodies have been recovered from the explosion site between Thursday night and the early hours of yesterday.
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