FIFTEEN people have killed and many others were seriously injured in a pipeline explosion in Nigeria’s south eastern Imo State, national television reported on Thursday. The explosion happened near the town of Umudike, the television said, showing footage of some of those burnt to death in the incident. Imo State Governor Achike Udenwa has visited the scene of the explosion and promised government assistance to those injured, the report said. The report did not indicate when exactly the incident happened. In the past three years, dozens of oil and pipeline explosions have been recorded in many parts of the southern Nigeria in which hundreds of people have been killed. Officials attribute the explosion to the actions of vandals and fuel thieves. – AFP