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26.06.2024 Featured ‘It Was a Leakage’ — Insider Describes How Dangote Refinery Fire Began

Published 26th Jun, 2024

By Emmanuel Uti

A source has attributed the Dangote Refinery fire to a leakage in one of the pipes stationed within the facility.

The source, who doesn’t want to be named, said the fire started at midnight.

“It was a leakage on Pipe A13 that caused the fire. It started small: first, a burning cable before people started perceiving some smell. This was around midnight. But it has been put out,” he told FIJ.

An emerging video on X (formerly Twitter) showing that a part of the Dangote refinery in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State, was on fire has begun to draw the attention of social media users.

In the video now shared by many users, the first being at 1:22 pm, on the microblogging site, heaps of black smoke from the burning area were visible from a part of the refinery.

FIJ learned that part of the Dangote refinery was indeed on fire in the wee hours of Wednesday.

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According to the source, firefighters were only able to contain the fire around noon.

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Published 26th Jun, 2024

By Emmanuel Uti

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