Imo Govt conducts mass burial for 110 victims of illegal refinery inferno  

The Imo State government carried out mass burial on Tuesday conducted for the 110 victims of the explosion at an illegal refinery in Ahaeze last Friday.

The victims were burnt beyond recognition at the scene of the explosion the illegal refinery was operated in Abaeze, Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area, Imo State.

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) had declared that over 110 people were burnt in the inferno. Some were identified by the relatives while many others burnt beyond recognition were laid to rest by the state government in a mass burial.

Chairman of Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area, Marcellinus Amadioha, represented Governor Hope Uzodimma at the mass burial.

Amadioha had declared: “We are here today to do justice as a responsible government.

“People whose corpses cannot be identified because of the explosion; the governor has mandated us to make sure we bury those who cannot be identified by their people.

“There are over 100 people but some of them have been identified by their relations. The remaining – over 50 of them – that nobody could identify, we are here to bury them as humans and a responsible government.”