A Nigerian Soldier Was Killed By Pipeline Explosion After Just Returning From Fighting Boko Haram(Photos)

A Nigerian Soldier, Others Was Killed By Pipeline Explosion After Just Returning From Fighting Boko Haram.

A Nigerian soldier, Nnaemeka Evoh aka Vulture, was among the 24 people said to have so far been confirmed dead in the Friday morning explosion that occurred at the Osisioma, Abia State axis of the petroleum products pipeline belonging to NNPC. 

Numerous others were said to have sustained various ranges of burns and were rushed to hospitals in which clinical personnel are battling to keep their lives.

The explosion was said to have occurred when NNPC pumped products through old and abandoned pipelines, which security agencies understood were no longer used to transport products.

Abia State Police Command spokesman, Geoffrey Ogbonna, said that it was unfortunate that people did not heed the warning by police that people should not scoop petroleum products from ruptured pipelines because of the very high risk to life and property when explosion occurs.

Like in past incidents, the pipeline fire was said to have been caused by pipeline vandals who, in the process of scooping petroleum products from the damaged pipeline, sparked the fire.

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