 It is a Black Monday for travellers, both drivers and owners of the Bonney vial, named Jette in Port Harcourt, city local government area of River State, as an early morning fire, several persons including pregnant women, women and a toddler were reportedly burned to death. Some of the victims were also eyewitnesses of the Jette, he said, that many fibre and wooden boats were destroyed in the inferno, which started at about 2am, sparked by a local boat that arrived in the city from Brass, late Sunday night. Counting their losses, they said the effect of the disaster was massive due to lack of emergency services such as fire service at the Jette. They appealed to the River State government to build a fire service station close to the Jette as promised to avert future currents. I've lost everything. Good day, I've seen what is happening on the Jette. I've seen people property, I've seen matured land, being naked. That is just for property alone, we did not talk about souls, souls we've lost. We can't go here this morning now, even the ones who don't pick up, they try to bring this engine to the waypoint, who don't pick so many, not be the ones that will die for night, for night, where we'll keep here. This thing started around 12 o'clock in the night, with the no fire service, nothing. It is the boys area here that struggle to quench this fire. A place like this, you are supposed to have something like fire service, don't go, you don't have that passenger who passes in the night. That is when you see most people died inside the fire. The acting manager, National Inward Waterways Authority in Port Arcut, Abram Ogwu said, there is the need to sensitize the boat drivers and travelers on safety measures. Even though the cause of the massive blaze is not known, previous fire outbreaks at the jetty had been attributed to the storage of inflammable substances, like petroleum products used in powering the speedboat engines in makeshift buildings within the slum. The jetty is usually a busy transit point for thousands of residents, traveling from Port Arcut by sea to Boney, Belay, Nimbay and other riverine communities. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.