It was gathered that the fire burnt various petrol tankers in the area for hours without even a single fire service truck in sight to quell the inferno.
The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained as at the time of filing this airport.
Sometime ago, a pipeline fire on the fringe of the Army Barracks along the Effurun-Sapele Road, Delta state left several cars burnt..
The raging fire was said to have been ignited by a spark from a power electricity cable fell by a heavy duty equipment into a pool of crude oil which observers noticed has been spilling from a ruptured pipeline belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.
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