LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Flames from a ruptured fuel pipeline swept through homes and a school in a Nigerian village Thursday, killing about 100 people and injuring some 20 others, a Red Cross official said.
lear how many children were among the roughly 100 people killed. Around 20 people were injured and taken to a hospital for treatment, but fire-control teams were on the scene and bringing the blaze under control, he said.

At least 100 people have been killed in an oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, the local Red Cross says.
The explosion tore through the Ijegun suburb, engulfing schools and homes after a bulldozer burst the pipeline, reports Reuters news agency.
spokesman Abdulsalam Mohammed said.

LAGOS (Reuters) - At least 100 people were killed and scores injured when fuel from a pipeline ruptured by an earthmover caught fire and exploded in a Nigerian village near the biggest city of Lagos, the Red Cross said on Thursday.
The fireball engulfed homes and schools at Ijegun village in the Lagos district of Alimosho, and many of the dead, who included schoolchildren, were killed in the ensuing stampede as people fled the flames.
pipelines criss-cross Africa's top oil-producing nation and explosions and fires with high fatalities are frequent.

At least 10 people have been killed in an pipeline explosion in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos. The explosion tore through a suburb, engulfing schools

Several people were burnt to death and dozens others were injured when fuel from a pipeline ruptured by an earthmover building a road on the outskirts of

LAGOS (Reuters) - Several people were burnt to death and scores injured when fuel from a pipeline ruptured by an earthmover building a road on the outskirts of Lagos caught fire, the Red Cross said on Thursday.
The Red Cross said a number of homes and schools were also engulfed by the flames that raged through Ijegun village in the Lagos district of Alimosho.
r, 250 people were killed in another pipeline fire in a different area of Lagos.