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Nigeria fuel fire claims 100 lives [1]

At least 100 people were killed and scores injured when fuel from a pipeline ruptured by an earthmover building a road on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital Lagos caught fire, the Red Cross said last night. "About 100 people have so far been confirmed dead. We have rescued more than 20 people and taken them to hospital," said one Red Cross official. Most of the deaths and injuries resulted from a stampede caused by the fire.

Publication Date: 
16/05/2008
Financial Times (London) [2]
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Industrial Disasters [3], Nigeria [4]
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