AT least seven people in southern Nigeria’s Benin City have been killed and others seriously burnt after cooking fuel that had been mixed with petrol exploded. The majority of those burnt were women and children, NTA television said in its evening bulletin, showing some of the victims recovering in hospital. Those injured said they suspected that the cooking fuel, or kerosene, had been contaminated at a filling station where it was purchased. In the past year, more than 400 people were killed in fuel fires around the country. – AFP