Nigeria pipeline blast kills up to 200 people

[Dinner]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse

The Red Cross said the pipeline blew up while thieves were drilling into it, igniting about 500 jerrycans of fuel. Theft of petrol or crude oil from pipelines is common in Nigeria.

"You can see the corpses. Some are burned to ash. Others are remnants. ... We estimate 150 to 200 people died," Lagos State Police Commissioner Emmanuel Adebayo said at the scene.

How the hell did an explosion involving a couple of thousand gallons of fuel kill 200 people?

That doesn't make any sense.

Did an entire village turn out to watch these yahoos drill into the pipeline?

More then likely all 200 where involved in stealing the oil. Either that or it was in the middle of a village.

[SlowwHand]

Notice this:

"Because this thing has happened many times before, we thought it would be a deterrent, but apparently it wasn't enough deterrent for these people who died," he told the Associated Press.

The people dying here wasn't the hoped deterrent. Previous instances were. These people received "punishment" for not being deterred.