Fire has gutted the popular Nembe-Bonny Jetty Waterfront in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, with several persons, including two children, feared dead.
Several boats and goods worth millions of naira were also destroyed in the inferno.
Although the cause of the fire outbreak had yet to be known as of the time of filing this report, sources at the jetty said a boat loaded with petroleum product suspected to be kerosene caught fire which extended to other boats parked at the Jetty.
According to witnesses, the massive fire started off from a wooden boat that was conveying food items for local traders at the Nembe waterfront.
A report by Channels TV said It was strongly believed that the boat might have also had in it, inflammable substances like illegally refined petroleum products, a common business activity at the ghetto waterfront, which might have sparked the fire.
The inferno at the Nembe jetty is the third massive fire to be recorded in Rivers State within 48 hours.
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