A fresh update has emerged on how the Dangote Refinery fire began.
NewsOnline Nigeria reports that 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.
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This Nigeria news platform learned that part of the Dangote refinery was indeed on fire in the wee hours of Wednesday.
A source who spoke to FIJ confirmed that the fire started at midnight due to a leakage.
“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.
According to the source, firefighters were only able to contain the fire around noon.
