Charred bodies were left scattered among burnt palms, cars and vans on Sunday after a weekend explosion which killed more than 100 people at an illegal oil refining depot.
Bunkering site was on border of Rivers and Imo statesBlast follows recent crackdown by Rivers state governor
"There are so many people that died here. I'm pleading to the government to look into this," Uche Woke, a commercial bike rider, told Reuters at the scene of the blast on Saturday night.The Nigerian Red Cross Society was on the scene on Sunday to assess the blast, which destroyed a section of the Abaezi forest, which straddles the border of the Ohaji-Egbema Local Government Area of Imo state with Rivers state.
The process has led to fatal accidents and polluted a region already blighted by oil spills in farmland, creeks and lagoons.
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