<div><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Residents have searched through the remains of their charred homes after a fuel storage depot fire in Jakarta killed at least 17 people, including two children.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The fire, which started at approximately 8pm (01:00 GMT) on Friday from a fuel pipe at Pertamina’s Plumpang fuel storage depot in capital Jakarta, quickly spread to nearby houses and sent residents in the densely populated area into a panic.</div><div><br></div><div>Sixty people were injured, with many severely burned, while hundreds more living in residential areas near the depot had to be evacuated.</div><div><br></div><div>The North Jakarta Red Cross said 342 people had been evacuated and that four tents were set up for the displaced.</div><div><br></div><div>Three people were still missing after the blaze, with Indonesian officials the next day calling for an audit of “all fuel facilities and infrastructures” in the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Vice President Ma’ruf Amin visited the scene on Saturday and confirmed 17 people were killed and 60 more injured.</div><div><br></div><div>He suggested the depot should be moved away from residential neighbourhoods.</div><div><br></div><div>“I hope this depot can be relocated … so it will be safer and this area will be rearranged so it meets the requirements of a proper neighbourhood in the capital,” he told reporters.</div><div><br></div><div>Footage broadcast on Friday night showed people screaming and fleeing through narrow roads with an inferno lighting up the sky behind them.</div><div>A fireball could be seen across the skyline of north Jakarta with sirens wailing in the background.</div><div><br></div><div>Abdul Syukur, who also lives nearby, told Kompas TV that residents said they could smell the fuel about 30 minutes before the fire.</div><div><br></div><div>“The smell was so strong there were people throwing up and some nearly fainted,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Another witness, Swastono Aji, told AFP news agency that the smell “was so strong that we could hardly breathe”. - BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>