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A good way to not get blown up by a crashed truck leaking fuel is to not attempt to steal the fuel from the leaking truck.
Crashed vehicle, leaking, locals gather to retrieve leaking fuel, explode.
Yeah.
And I stay at Marriott's.
Story seemed familiar...
Up to 200 killed in Nigeria as fuel thieves cause huge pipeline blast
This article is more than 18 years oldTom Ashby in Inagbe beach and Reuters
Fri 12 May 2006 19.11 EDT
A pipeline explosion killed up to 200 people on the outskirts of Lagos yesterday, leaving charred corpses on a sandy beach where locals tapping the pipe to steal fuel ignited the blast.
The Red Cross said the pipeline blew up in the early hours of the morning while thieves were siphoning fuel into jerry cans for sale on the black market. The explosion burned everything within a 20 metre radius. Only calcinated skulls and bones were left of five people who were closest to the pipeline, which bore marks of drilling in several places.
About 100 blackened corpses were strewn on the water's edge. Some bodies, charred and bloated, floated in the creek, which is about a mile from Lagos city centre. "You can see the corpses. Some are burnt to ash. Others are remnants. We estimate 150 to 200 people died," the Lagos state police commissioner, Emmanuel Adebayo, said at the scene.
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