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Kenya pipeline explodes, flattening homes, killing scores

Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- A fuel pipeline exploded in a densely populated Nairobi slum Monday morning, flattening homes, reducing some bodies to dust and forcing a massive evacuation of the area amid fears that big pools of leaked fuel could ignite, police and Kenya Red Cross officials said.

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http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/09/12/kenya.fire/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
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This is awful...just horrible.  
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1310633 tn?1430224091
"The precise cause of the accident remained unclear."

"Police suspect the pipeline was punctured, possibly in an effort to steal fuel, Kiraithe said."

Hmmmmmm... I wonder why the pipeline exploded???

Sad.
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