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Lagos Inferno

What caused an explosion in March that destroyed an area of more than 100,000 square metres in Lagos, Nigeria? The Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ's Africa Eye investigates.

An explosion in Lagos, Nigeria rocked the city to its core. 23 people were killed, and a girls' boarding school totally destroyed. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, the country's state-owned oil firm, said the blast in March occurred as a result of a truck that hit gas cylinders near one of its petroleum pipelines. But Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Africa Eye's investigation indicates this explanation for the cause of the blast, that decimated over 100,000 square metres of the city, is wrong.

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Tue 6 Oct 2020 10:30GMT

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