Nigeria, March 18 -- An explosion rocked the Rivers State community on Monday night, blowing up an oil pipeline exporting Nigeria crude oil to the international market.
The blast struck a section of the pipeline near Bodo-Bonny Road in the state's Gokana Local Government Area, which is currently under construction.
In a video posted by Channels Television on Facebook, black smoke can be seen billowing up the sky.
Channels report that the Trans-Niger pipeline is a major pipeline transporting crude oil from oil fields in Rivers and Bayelsa states to the Bonny crude oil export terminal, a key route for exporting Nigerian crude oil to the international market.
The cause of the explosion cannot be ascertained at the time of this report.
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