Fire guts refinery in Warri
The Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company, Delta State, was on Tuesday morning gutted by fire.
The cause of the fire, which started at about 11.00am was not immediately known.
Eyewitness said it started from one of the refining plants in the
complex. The fire was still raging at the time of this report and Warri
and its environ was engulfed in huge overcast of smoke pouring into the
sky from the blazing inferno.
It was gathered that the management of the company, a subsidiary of
the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, has sent SOS to the state
fire service and companies that have private fire fighting equipment to
join in the efforts to quell the inferno
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