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Pipeline Explodes in Kenya‚ Killing at least 75

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The fuel pipeline burst into flames in a densely populated Nairobi slum village near the Kenya Pipeline Company depot Monday morning. killing scores of villagers and destroying lines of tin-shack shelters.
[Interview : Sospeter Ndeke‚ Mukuru resident] "There was a lot of smoke and there were people around that area who were fetching petroleum remains then they inhaled the smoke and they collapsed when those around there inhaled it‚ then smoke turned into fire and all around there including houses were burnt."
Survivors say people gathered with cans when oil from a nearby depot spilled into a sewage ditch.
They say the fire began without warning when a man tossed away a cigarette butt with the ensuing blaze engulfing dozens of people who had been filling containers with oil.
Meanwhile‚ rescuers at the scene say the death toll‚ which stands at around 75‚ could rise even further due to the severity of some of the victims' burns.
Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga who paid a visit to a nearby hospital to see the injured expressed regret that so many Kenyans died in the inferno.
[Interview : Raila Odinga‚ Kenyan Prime Minister ] "This is a terrible‚ terrible‚ terrible accident‚ the site of dead bodies lying there at Mukuru is something that is shocking‚ it is shocking how this happened and of course you see people are completely unprepared and unaware."
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has also expressed "sorrow and sympathy" to the families of the victims.
Monday's pipeline explosion is one of Kenya's one of worst energy-related disasters in the country's history but similar accidents are not uncommon in Kenya.
More than 1-hundred people died in Western Kenya two years ago after an overturned oiltanker they were attempting to steal oil from exploded.
Yang Ji-woo‚ Arirang News.
Reporter : jwyang@arirangtv.com

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