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CHRONOLOGY-Deadly Nigerian pipeline disasters
15 May 2008 18:44:19 GMT
 Source: Reuters
May 15 (Reuters) - At least 100 people were killed and scores injured on Thursday when fuel from a pipeline ruptured by an earthmover exploded in a village near Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, the Red Cross said.

Following is a chronology of some of the biggest pipeline disasters in Nigeria in recent years.

July 10, 2000 - A pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers, with fires burning out of control near the town of Jesse. Six days later, at least 100 villagers die when a ruptured pipeline explodes in the town of Warri.

Nov. 30, 2000 - A leaking oil products pipeline catches fire at a beachhead near the fishing village of Ebute near Lagos, killing at least 60 people.

June 19, 2003 - An oil pipeline punctured by thieves explodes north of the Abia state capital Umuahia, killing 125 villagers.

Sept. 17, 2004 - Dozens of people are killed in a pipeline explosion in the commercial capital Lagos after thieves tried to siphon petrol belonging to state oil company NNPC.

May 12, 2006 - A pipeline explosion at Inagbe Beach on the outskirts of Lagos kills more than 250 people.

Dec. 26, 2006 - Several hundred people are burned alive when fuel from a vandalised pipeline explodes in the Abule Egba district of Lagos. Nigerian Red Cross says 269 bodies retrieved.

Dec. 26, 2007 - At least 45 people burned to death on the outskirts of Lagos when fuel they are siphoning from a buried pipeline catches fire.

May 15, 2008 - At least 100 people killed and scores injured when fuel from a pipeline ruptured by an earthmover explodes in a village near Lagos, the Red Cross says.


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