Fires flare up again at Nigeria pipeline blast
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12/07/2000
-- Firefighters tried to douse burning pools of gasoline today in southern Nigeria, struggling to extinguish a pipeline fire as villagers hastily buried charred bodies. The cause of a fuel explosion on Monday near here is unclear. Oil company executives faulted a fuel-smuggling ring for puncturing the line to siphon gasoline. Witnesses counted more than 100 bodies