On May 12, 2006, an oil pipeline ruptured outside Lagos, Nigeria. As people came to collect some of the oil the pipeline exploded; up to 200 people may have been killed. On the following day President Olusegun Obasanjo ordered tighter security around much of Nigeria's pipelines with rescue workers burying the dead in mass graves.

External links

• 200 Feared Dead in Nigeria Oil Blast (AP via ABC news), May 12, 2006
• Nigeria pipeline blast kills up to 200 people (Reuters), Fri May 12, 2006 3:02pm ET
• 'Burnt to ash' in Nigeria blast BBC news, Friday, 12 May 2006, 21:37 GMT 22:37 UK
• Probe ordered after Nigeria blast BBC news, Saturday, 13 May 2006, 14:40 GMT 15:40 UK

2006 disasters | History of Nigeria