By Prensa Latina
Abuja : At least 40 persons died in a fire in a Nigerian oil pipeline provoked by looters in the southern state of Lagos, a police source reported on Wednesday.
Nearly 34 corpses, among them children and women, have been rescued from the place where the blast took place on Tuesday.
The deflagration occurred when a group of hooligans made a hole on the pipeline of a state oil company established in that region.
Rescue teams are still working in the area where the blast took place when someone tried to force the pipe to steal combustible, something usual in this country, noted the press media.
The governor of Lagos States Babatunde Fashola ordered emergency teams and paramilitary forces join the rescue activities.
The death tall could be bigger in the next few hours.