200 killed in Lagos in a pipeline blast.

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On Tuesday a tragic incident hit the Nigerian capital, Lagos, where a ruptured gasoline pipeline burst into flames because of a fuel collected by scavengers, at least 200 died while the rescue workers were trying to gather the charred corpses that were lying on the scene, a terrible image which the workers are not able to get rid of for soon! And intense heat was keeping the rescue workers back as smoke billowed.

 

The bodies were hardly recognisable because of the skulls, moreover the bodies are scattered over the ground, it was impossible to get closer because the fire was still burning. Lagos population is about to get used to such incidents since the same tragedy happened on May where more than 150 persons dead in a similar explosion. The Red Cross officials said their workers are documenting 200 persons and still counting. A lawyer who lives in a neighbourhood next to the blast told the incident was preventable because of ignorance, poverty and greed. The man did not specify his age.

 The strangest is that Nigeria is the first oil producer in Africa but the country suffers from a terrible shortage of fuel for vehicles and stoves, this is unfortunately due to the bad management, limited refining capacity and corruption.

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