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“The accident took place on Saturday in the Kom Kom area of Oyigbo, while a team of engineers were carrying out maintenance work on the pipeline,” Nnamdi Omono, spokesman for the Rivers State Police, told AFP. “The number of victims is still unknown.” On Sunday morning, the fire was contained, he added. Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer, depends for more than two-thirds of its public revenues on oil.

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