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An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
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2002 Lagos armoury explosion
Accidental bomb detonation
The Lagos armoury explosion was the accidental detonation of a large stock of high explosives at a military storage facility in the city of Lagos, Nigeria, on 27 January 2002. The fires created by the debris from this explosion burnt down a large section of Northern Lagos, and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Lagos
Most populous city in Nigeria
Lagos, or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan city in southwestern Nigeria. With upper estimates of its population exceeding 21 million people in 2019, it is the largest city in Nigeria, the most populous urban area on the African continent, and one of the fastest-growing…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)