MORE than 60 Nigerians have died when an explosion ripped through a fractured pipeline at a state-run loading depot outside Lagos, police and witnesses said. Hundreds of people were illegally siphoning off fuel from the pipeline, operated by the state-run oil Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), when the blast occurred, witnesses said. The incident is just the latest in a series of such explosions which have left more than 1500 people dead in Nigeria in the past two years. – AFP