Some of the victims who died have been buried in the local cemetery, said journalist in Aceh, Hidayatullah.
Outside the dead and wounded, fire also burned three houses of residents near the source of the fire. Temporary losses are predicted to reach tens of millions of rupiah.
A statement issued by the Regional Disaster Management Agency said the fire was allegedly 'coming from a spark when a worker welds a pipe to be put in a well'.
The Aceh Provincial Disaster Management Agency said one drilled well had traditionally discharged oil and gas and at the same time came a group of residents to take out the oil.
It said the group of people who were looking for crude oil amounted to more than 10 people.
Residents came to the site to pick up an unacceptable oil spill.
East Aceh Police Chief, AKBP Wahyu Kuncoro, said until now the fire is still not extinguished and it is still making efforts to fire so as not to widen to other wells drill.
"Almost every resident's house has drilled well behind the house, about 30 meters distance," said Chief of East Aceh Police, AKBP Wahyu Kuncoro, as reported
Wahyu Kuncoro added the exploding illegal drilling wells had a depth of about 250 meters and sprayed excessive oil due to the volume of oil so much.
He said it is still sterilizing around the exploding wells, so as not to spread to dozens of other wells.
The East Aceh Regent, Hasballah, said there have been four explosions in the same area so far.
The explosion of illegal borehole occurred since around 01.00 WIB. Dozens of injured and dead people were taken to Abdul Azis Perlak Hospital and Jubir Mahmud Hospital, Idi district of East Aceh.
The Regent of East Aceh in an interview with TVOne said that illegal oil wells are in the middle of a residential area.
"Residents do not know technical drilling (safe), waste (oil) is scattered," said Hasballah.
In East Aceh there are a number of oil wells that were formerly drilling in the Dutch era.
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