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The Aka God petrol presumption located astatine Nkwoegwu town, Umuahia North LGA of Abia State, was on Sunday night, destroyed by occurrence outbreak.
The inferno, which started astatine astir 6:30 pm, lasted for hours.
It was reportedly caused by an detonation from a loaded petrol tanker wrong the facility.
Though nary beingness was lost, the occurrence outbreak destroyed goods worthy millions of naira successful the petrol presumption and partially affected adjourning property.
Initial efforts made by youths of Nkwoegwu assemblage and different sympathizers to quench the occurrence was not palmy arsenic balls of occurrence pumping up from the burning tanker overwhelmed their efforts.
But men of Abia State Fire Service who were alerted astir occurrence outbreak, arrived the country astatine astir 7: p.m. and deployed their equipment.
The efforts of the occurrence fighters yet stopped the occurrence from consuming adjacent backstage buildings, a aesculapian installation and different structures.
Some indigenes of Nkwoegwu, Ohuhu...
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