JAKARTA, 5 March. (DPA/EP) –
At least 19 people have died, 50 have been injured and another three are still unaccounted for as a result of the fire in the fuel depot owned by the state company Pertamina in north Jakarta, according to the latest balance of the capital’s emergency teams. from indonesian.
At least 35 people suffered severe burns as a result of the fire, which also destroyed homes near the depot, located in a densely populated district in North Jakarta, DPA has reported.
The fire caused panic among the residents who lived around these facilities located in the Plumpang district. The fire would have occurred as a result of the explosion of a pipe, as specified by the company, although the exact reason is still unknown, reports the Indonesian newspaper ‘Kompas’
The Firemen detailed that the flames spread to some of the nearby houses, for which the neighbors had to be evicted, although many of them had already begun to flee.
The fuel tank had a capacity of more than 300,000 kiloliters, according to the Ministry of Energy. It is not the first time that the facilities have suffered a fire, as in January 2009, another one occurred that affected several tanks that, according to what they contained, some 2 million liters of fuel.
