Indonesia Fuel Depot Fire Kills 19; 3 Still Missing

Rescuers recover the body of a victim from a neighborhood affected by a fuel depot fire in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 4, 2023. Tatan Syuflana/AP Photo

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indonesian rescuers and firefighters on Sunday searched for three people who were still missing after a large fire spread from a fuel storage depot in the capital and killed at least 19 people.

The Plumpang fuel storage station, operated by state-run oil and gas company Pertamina, is near a densely populated area in the Tanah Merah neighborhood in North Jakarta. It supplies 25 percent of Indonesia’s fuel needs.