NIGERIA - Scores die in Nigeria fuel blast

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Friday, 12 May 2006,

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Scores

die in Nigeria fuel blast

 

 

 

 

 

More

than 150 people have been killed in an explosion at a petrol pipeline near

Nigeria's largest city, Lagos.

Police and Red Cross officials at the scene of the blast, on Atlas Creek Island, said many of

the bodies had been burnt beyond recognition.

Eyewitnesses in Lagos said they had seen

thick black smoke rising from a nearby area.

A fire at the scene was put out, the Red Cross said, but no

injured people have been recovered.

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An AFP news agency reporter at the site of the blast said he had

seen bodies strewn over a 100m area of the coast and the charred remains of a

boat on the water containing corpses.

There are some reports that the blast, which happened early on

Friday morning, may have been caused by people stealing petrol from a pipeline.

There have been hundreds of deaths in Nigeria in recent years in

similar circumstances

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4765695.stm

 

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