There was tension in Port Harcourt on
Friday as residents of the Rivers State capital witnessed a cocktail of
fire incidents in four different locations.
While residents around Abuloma Jetty were
jolted by the explosion of a vessel that claimed the lives of at least
30 persons, workers of Rivers State Newspaper Corporation lost property
worth millions of naira as fire gutted the second floor of The Tide Newspaper building located on Ikwerre Road.
Also, the Engineering Department of a Port Harcourt-based radio station, Rhythm FM, was razed by an early morning fire that had made the station to go off air.
At Eneka, operatives of the Joint Military
Task Force codenamed ‘Operation Pulo Shield’ set fire to five tankers
loaded with illegally refined oil, completing the blend of fire
incidents in Port Harcourt in a day.
On the explosion of a vessel at the Abuloma
Jetty, it was gathered that the occupants of the ship, excluding three
persons who escaped, were dead.
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