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Kenyan oil pipeline explosion kills 120

AFP, Nairobi
At least 120 people were burned to death yesterday when a pipeline burst into flames in a Nairobi slum as local people were siphoning fuel from it, and more than 100 hospitalised, officials said.
Scores of bodies, some burned to the bone, lay on charred grass near trenches and a filthy river in the Sinai slum following the accident.
No official explanation had been given as to what caused the accident along the pipeline that runs through Sinai's tin shacks.
However, some residents said fuel siphoning in the slum was a common practice.
"It happens whenever the Kenya Pipeline (company) is pumping fuel... we usually go to get fuel from there," said Francis Munge.
"The death toll from bodies counted so far is 120. It is likely to rise because of
the bodies in the river," said Philip Kisia, a Nairobi city council official.
Richard Lesiampe, the head of one of the country's main hospitals in Nairobi, said 109 people were being treated for burns.
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga expressed sympathy with the victims.
"It is a terrible, terrible situation. It is sad to see our people lose their lives like this," Odinga said as he toured the slum.
Many residents were caught up in the blaze, which started around 0530 GMT, and an AFP reporter at the scene counted scores of charred bodies around the scene.
"I have never seen this in my life. I have seen women and children burnt like firewood. The very worst was a woman burned with her baby on her back," another local resident, Francis Muendo, told AFP
Some of those whose clothing and hair caught fire jumped into a nearby stream to try to extinguish the flames, but many succumbed to their injuries in the water. Police later placed a net across the stream to prevent the bodies from drifting away.
Mutinda said the last of the injured had now been evacuated and he and his colleagues were concentrating on "support and tracing services."
Houses close to the pipeline were also engulfed in flames, their tin roofs buckling and disintegrating and their badly burned residents evacuated for medical care.
Fuel leaks and oil tanker accidents in Africa often draw huge crowds scrambling to scoop fuel, resulting in many deaths due to accidental fires.
In 2009,122 people were killed after a fire erupted while they were drawing fuel from an overturned tanker in western Kenya.