BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, April 25 (Reuters) - Firefighters in Indonesia are struggling to contain a blaze at an oil well in the northwestern province of Aceh that killed ten people and injured as many as 40, authorities said on Wednesday. “The fire has been extinguished now.... We are still monitoring the injured and the situation at the accident,” said Henny Nurmayani, an official at Aceh’s disaster mitigation agency. The fire broke out in the east Aceh district in the early hours of Wednesday, after a well of depth 250 meters (820 ft) overflowed and residents gathered to collect the oil, the agency added. The Antara state agency earlier said five people had been killed and dozens injured due to illegal drilling at the well.
The death toll from yesterday's oil well explosion and fire in Pasir Putih, Aceh, Indonesia reaches 22.