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At least 16 individuals have been killed in a fireplace at a fuel storage station within the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, CNN affiliate CNN Indonesia reported on Friday.
The station is operated by Pertamina, Indonesia’s state-run vitality firm.
Social media footage confirmed an enormous flame billowing and folks working for canopy.
Some close by residents have been evacuated and Jakarta’s firefighting power has dispatched 52 models to reply to the blaze.
Pertamina will examine the reason for the hearth and supply remedy for these affected, the corporate’s CEO Nicke Widyawati advised CNN Indonesia.
Fuel provides for Jakarta can be supplied from different terminals close by, Widyawati stated.
In 2018, an oil spill trigger by a leak of Pertamina’s undersea crude pipelines killed 5 fishermen.
Indonesian authorities at the time declared a state of “emergency response” over the huge scale of the spill and environmental injury off the coast of the Southeast Asian nation.