Pipeline explosion in Nigeria blamed on rebels

Laos News.Net
Thursday 27th December, 2007

At least fifty people in Nigeria's capital, Lagos have been killed or burnt after a fuel pipeline was tampered with.

Police believe rebels may have been involved.

The petrol pipeline ignited when locals started pumping fuel into containers.

The fireball was so great, it scorched an area of about four acres.

A lot of the dead were women and children; victims to a deliberate breach in the pipeline.

The remains of many of the victims have now been buried in hurriedly dug mass graves, without being identified.

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