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40 killed in Nigerian oil pipeline fire
About 40 people have died in a fire at an oil pipeline after it was vandalised by looters in the southern Nigerian state of Lagos, a police spokesman said Wednesday... The tragedy occurred when a group of people vandalised a pipeline belonging to the state oil firm NNPC in a creek at Agbabo village on the outskirts of Lagos... At the next village down the road, Clement Nzu...was critical of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for not protecting its pipelines better. "The village was here before the pipeline," he said...