Red Cross: No 2nd pipeline blast
The Red Cross said Thursday that a government official’s report of a second pipeline explosion in a poor Lagos neighborhood was mistaken. Nigerian Red Cross official Ige Oladimeji said once officials got to the site in a northern neighborhood of Nigeria’s largest city, they found no pipeline explosion or fire. The new scare came two days after a blast hit a pipeline in Lagos as scavengers collected fuel spilling from the conduit, leaving 265 people dead. Full Story