The Commissioner of Police in Imo State, Muhammed Berde, has ordered investigation into the Friday night\u2019s fire outbreak at an illegal refinery located in a forest at Abaezi community in the Ohaji-Egbema Local Government Area of the state which claimed no fewer than 100 lives.<\/p>\n
The police spokesperson for the Command, Micheal Abattam, who said this during a telephone conversation added that the cause of the fire outbreak had not been ascertained.<\/span><\/p>\n He disclosed that the CP had order an investigation for the cause of the inferno be unravelled.<\/span><\/p>\n The incident happened at a location between Abacheke and Abaezi communities.<\/span><\/p>\n It was gathered that some of the victims were caught by the fire while they were running and trying to escape.<\/span><\/p>\n Unidentified burnt bodies littered the area even as family members were seen moving away the remains of their loved ones.<\/span><\/p>\n Scores of people visited the scene of the incident on Saturday to have a glimpse of the unfortunate development.<\/span><\/p>\n Not fewer than 50 bodies burnt beyond recognition was counted at the scene of the fire explosion which was said to have happened at about 8pm.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Commissioner of Police in Imo State, Muhammed Berde, has ordered investigation into the Friday night\u2019s fire outbreak at an illegal refinery located in a forest at Abaezi community in the Ohaji-Egbema Local Government Area of the state which claimed no fewer than 100 lives. The police spokesperson for the Command, Micheal Abattam, who said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4447,4445,4446,680],"class_list":["post-7388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-100-lives","tag-cp","tag-illegal-refinery-explosion","tag-probe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7390,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388\/revisions\/7390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}