BREAKING: Two Residents Feared Dead, Vehicles Razed As Explosion Rocks Rivers

Residents have been feared dead while vehicles were razed as an explosion rocked Rivers State on Tuesday.

 

EKOHOTBLOG reports that no fewer than two people have been confirmed dead following a Petroleum tanker explosion in Omerelu in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State.

 

It was gathered that several buildings around the area were also razed by the explosion on Tuesday.

 

 

It was learnt that the tragic incident occurred on Tuesday after the tanker, containing petroleum products, collided with another petroleum tanker which was stopped by members of the task force at a checkpoint.

 

A resident of the Rivers community, who confirmed the incident, alleged that the members of the task force attempted to extort the drivers of the petroleum tankers when the incident occurred.

 

The source said, “The presence of the IGP Petroleum taskforce has caused a lot of issues that have set houses in Omerelu on fire, threatening tankers, stopping oil bunkerers, collecting money from them.

 

“This morning part of Omerelu is gone, lives have been lost. We have lost two persons with others injured.

 

“As I speak with you, the youths have mobilized in Omerelu, they have destroyed their various checkpoints. They are asking the state government to come and remove them and take them away from Omerelu community,” the resident disclosed.

 

However, the Rivers State Police Command had yet to comment on the incident as of press time.

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