Lagos pipeline blast kills 15, destroys several buildings - Nigerian officials

An explosion at a gas processing plant killed at least 15 people and destroyed approximately 50 buildings on Sunday after a fire broke out in a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, emergency services said. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said the explosion was triggered after a truck hit some gas cylinders stacked in a gas processing plant near the corporation's pipeline in Abule Ado area of Lagos state.

Several people were injured and taken to hospital, according to zonal coordinator for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). The impact of the explosion led to the collapse of nearby houses, damaged NNPC's pipeline and caused the corporation to halt pumping operations on the Atlas Cove-Mosimi pipeline, the state-owned oil company said in a statement.