Yup, blowed up real good.
Posted on 09/17/2004 12:14:37 PM PDT by dead
LAGOS - Between 30 and 50 people have been killed in an explosion at a fuel pipeline on the outskirts of the Nigerian commercial capital Lagos, police said on Friday.
"Between 30 and 50 people were killed while siphoning fuel from a damaged pipeline," Lagos police spokesman Emmanuel Ighodalo said, giving a new toll from Thursday’s explosion at Imore village, a northern suburb of the city.
Witnesses had earlier said at least 12 people died in the blast.
Ighodalo said no arrests were made.
"Nobody was arrested because the victims were also the offenders. And you cannot arrest dead people."
Earlier witness Yinka Adamolekun said a portion of the pipeline was ignited by a spark from a generator used to power a boat allegedly used by the victims while stealing fuel.
Last week, the state police commissioner, Israel Ajao, paraded eight suspected fuel thieves arrested in the area.
More than 1,000 villagers suspected of stealing fuel in Jesse, in southern Delta State, were killed in 1998 following a fuel pipeline explosion.
Similar incidents have been recorded in several other parts of the country since then.
Hundreds of fuel and oil thieves have been arrested or interrogated in the past four years as the government launched a crackdown on them.
Some of them are being prosecuted for economic sabotage and stealing.
AFP
Blowed up?
Yup. Blowed up.
Obviously the writer took English classes in public schools.
Didn't this also happen a year or so ago?
Damn, some of those people owed me $23 million.
Reeel gooood
Hold muh gas can....
In a related story: Between 30 and 50 Darwin Awards are being readied for delivery this afternoon.
Real good.
Blowed up real purdy. Another day in Nubian Paradise.
They cannot be arrested. They can only vote.
Yup, blowed up real good.
24 seconds. Hope you're proud of yourself ;)
Blowed up real good.
Blowed up real good just damn ping.
Exactly right - these Nigerian explosions seem to happen every 6 months or so. It is always the same story: broken fuel line, hoardes of people collecting the spilled fuel and some idiot with a cigarette who wants to join in the fun.
MY UNCLE, GENERAL OBOHU, DIED RECENTLY IN A PIPELINE EXPLOSION. I HAVE $40 MILLION THAT BELONGS TO HIM, AND I NEED TO TRANSFER IT OUT OF THE COUNTRY IN SECRET. IF YOU WILL ASSIST ME, I WILL GIVE YOU 25% FOR YOUR TROUBLES. PLEASE SEND ME YOUR BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER, SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER, AND MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME. THE FUNDS CAN THEN BE TRANSFERRED TO YOUR ACCOUNT.
YOUR FRIEND,
MOHAMMED ATA
1,000 people! That's not petty crime.
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