What the records say
- When
- 2006
- Kind
- Explosion
- Coordinates
- 6.65° N, 3.30° E
- Description
- Pipeline explosion in Lagos, Nigeria resulting in hundreds of deaths
Placed at the town its title names, Abule Egba.
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Between 200 and 500 people have been killed in an oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, according to the Red Cross”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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