Christoph
26-12-06, 20:10
AGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- A ruptured gasoline pipeline burst into flames Tuesday as scavengers collected the fuel, leaving at least 200 people dead, as rescue workers tried to document more charred corpses lying at the scene.
Hundreds of bodies could be seen jumbled and fused together in the raging flames at the blast site. Intense heat kept rescue workers back, as smoke billowed over the heavily populated Lagos neighborhood of Adule Egba.
A senior official for the Nigerian Red Cross, Ige Oladimeji, 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," said Oladimeji. Workers "can't get close enough because the fire is still burning."
http://money.cnn.com/cnn/2006/WORLD/africa/12/26/nigeria.blast.ap/index.html
Hundreds of bodies could be seen jumbled and fused together in the raging flames at the blast site. Intense heat kept rescue workers back, as smoke billowed over the heavily populated Lagos neighborhood of Adule Egba.
A senior official for the Nigerian Red Cross, Ige Oladimeji, 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," said Oladimeji. Workers "can't get close enough because the fire is still burning."
http://money.cnn.com/cnn/2006/WORLD/africa/12/26/nigeria.blast.ap/index.html