More than 150 Killed in Nigerian Pipeline Blast

World | May 13, 2006, Saturday // 00:00

More than 150 people were killed while scavenging fuel when a ruptured fuel pipeline exploded and caught fire near Nigeria's biggest city of Lagos, police and health officials said. As burials took place on Saturday, President Olusegun Obasanjo said he was ordering an inquiry into the causes of the explosion.

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