Nigerian Pipeline Explosion Kills 200

12/26/2006

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - At least 200 people were killed Tuesday when a pipeline carrying petroleum products exploded in Nigeria's biggest city of Lagos, a Red Cross official said. The death toll was expected to rise.


Ige Oladimeji, a senior official for the Nigerian Red Cross, said his workers had documented "over 200 and still counting."


"We can only recognize them through the skulls, the bodies are scattered over the ground," he said.