Oil warehouse explosion in Lampung: Police find 50 fuel tanks


A member of the Bandar Lampung City Police' Indonesian Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (Inafis) team takes a picture of a burned warehouse in Bandar Lampung on Feb 29, 2024. - Kompas.com

JAKARTA: Police found the remnants of 50 tanks suspected to be used for hoarding fuel in a used oil warehouse that exploded in Bandar Lampung, Lampung province, on Tuesday (Feb 27).

"The warehouse is suspected to be a storage facility for diesel fuel; the owner is different from the lessor. We are still investigating this," Sukarame sub-precinct police chief Comr Warsito said on Wednesday, as quoted by kompas.com.

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