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Victims of Nigeria's oil refinery fire 'impossible to identify'

Victims of a fire that engulfed an illegal oil refinery in Imo State are given a mass burial due to difficulties in recognising the bodies.

Authorities in Imo State say victims of a fire that engulfed an illegal oil refinery on Friday will be given a mass burial because of the difficulties in recognising the charred bodies.

Also in the programme: The WHO announced a fresh outbreak of Ebola in a populated city of the Democratic Republic of Congo; And we hear how Yoruba communities in southeast Nigeria marked the death of one of Nigeria's most pre-eminent monarchs - The Alaafin of Oyo kingdom.

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