JAKARTA (Reuters) -Firefighters in Indonesia are struggling to contain a three-day-old fire at an illegal oil well that has killed at least three people and injured two others, a disaster relief official said on Tuesday.

Some 750 people have been evacuated from the densely populated areas around the site, located in Central Java province’s Blora region, Agung Tri, a member of the provincial disaster mitigation agency’s rapid response team, told Reuters.

The oil well was being operated without a permit by local residents when it caught fire on Sunday.

Authorities are still investigating the cause of the blaze, but residents living near the well said they heard an explosion before the fire broke out, Agung said.

The relief agency has deployed four excavators in an attempt to use soil to

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