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Posted: Tuesday December 26th, 2006 12:02 |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6209845.stm
Lagos pipeline blast kills scores
At least 200 people have been killed in an oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, the Red Cross says.
It is feared the death toll could be much higher.
Officials said the blast in the Abule Egba area happened as hundreds of people were scooping fuel from a pipeline punctured by thieves.
Some 2,000 people have died in similar incidents in the past decade, including 150 last May in Lagos.
NIGERIA PIPELINE DISASTERS
May 2006: At least 150 killed in Lagos
Dec 2004: At least 20 killed in Lagos
Sept 2004: At least 60 killed in Lagos
June 2003: At least 105 killed in Abia State
Jul 2000: At least 300 killed in Warri
Mar 2000: At least 50 killed in Abia State
Oct 1998: At least 1,000 killed in Jesse
Despite being Africa's largest oil producer, Nigerians often suffer fuel shortages because of corruption, poor management and infrastructure problems.
Pipelines often pass through poor communities, who break them to steal the precious fuel.
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Posted: Tuesday December 26th, 2006 12:08 |
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| Just heard about this...terrible news, my heart goes out to the families affected in Nigeria..
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Posted: Wednesday December 27th, 2006 10:11 |
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... in the largest country in Africa (by population), and the seventh largest oil producing country on Earth, up to 500 Africans may have been incinerated trying to collect leaked trickles of oil in buckets ... while European expatriates live around them in luxury ...
May They Rest in Peace with Our Creator
Rescue workers remove a body from the scene of a gas pipeline explosion near Lagos where 269 Africans have died so far
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Posted: Wednesday December 27th, 2006 11:32 |
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"... Akintunde Akinleye, a Reuters photographer, said that he counted more than 500 bodies, possibly up to 700, burnt beyond recognition ... "
(Source: The Times, 27 December 2006)
"... Some corpses lay rigid on the ground, arms and legs thrust awkwardly in the air with their clothes and skin burned off. It took firefighters equipped with leaking water hoses about six hours to put out the flames as hundreds of people watched ..."
(Source: The Guardian, 27 December 2006)
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Posted: Thursday December 28th, 2006 08:46 |
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Nigerians Search for Kin After Blast
A burn victim recovers in hospital a day after an oil pipeline explosion killed 269 people in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, December 27, 2006. Reuters / Akintunde Akinleye
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Posted: Friday December 29th, 2006 13:55 |
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this is a big shame, that a govt of a country has allowed itself to be so corrupt where the people will do anything and anything just to get by, since they have found no hope in the govt.
if any one has watched blood diamond, the situation in nigeria is very similar...but in this case blood oil, thankfully with far less violence. but the people whose lands have been used to provide billions for the govt and their freinds, are pretty much slaves to poverty.
once again...this isnt a European problem. its a corrupt nigerian govt problem.
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Posted: Saturday January 6th, 2007 09:18 |
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Blair's 'Concern'
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