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Police cordoned off the area and placed the site under round-the-clock surveillance as a precaution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Authorities have warned residents living nearby to keep away from the affected area and avoid lighting fires, amid concerns that the spilled fuel could pose a fire and environmental risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There were also concerns that the petroleum product could reach a nearby tributary of the River Nyando. An excavator was requested to help construct a containment barrier around the spill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senior KPC officials, led by the company’s acting director and chief executive, Pius Mwendwa, visited the site alongside senior police officers and other security officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
KPC has said it will provide food rations to 23 households affected by the incident while efforts to contain the spill continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The cause of the valve failure has not yet been established.
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One person has died and three others have been injured after a petroleum product spilled during maintenance work on a pipeline in Kisumu County. The incident happened on Wednesday afternoon at Kibigori in Muhoroni Subcounty, when technicians from the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) were installing a leak detection system inside a pipeline chamber. A valve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n