(28 Jan 2002)
Overnight shots
1. Wide of fire burning
2. Building on fire
3. Close shot of fire
Day shots
4. Exterior of Mandela Hospital, pans to badly damaged bank
5. Broken hospital windows
6. Various interiors of hospital ward with empty beds, broken windows and debris
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox pop, witness:
"We want something to be done. Look at the bomb. (Holds up piece of metal.) It landed in somebody's office. Look at the place over there. Everything was on fire."
8. Nigerian President's car arriving at scene of explosions
9. Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigerian President, getting out of car
10. Various of President walking through crowd
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigerian President:
"There will be a need for emergency food relief. There will be a need for relief to immediately repair accommodation and that sort of thing. That is the second immediate thing so that life as quickly as possible returns to normal. Then, there there is the normal thing that we do, or that the military will have to do, which is when a situation like this occurs the military must carry out an inquiry."
12. Wide of crowd
13. Pan of crowd
14. Wide shot of man on small boat in canal looking for bodies - and huge crowd behind
15. Mid shot of man on boat looking for bodies
16. Various of crowd standing on edge of Oke Afa canal watching rescue work
17. Mid shot of crowd and police
18. Mid shot of bodies on Oke Afa canal side - faces covered with leaves
19. Various of bodies
20. Close shot of mud-covered shoe on ground
21. Mid shot of shoes on ground
22. Pan of Oke Afa canal
23. Mid shot of bodies in van
24. Wide shot pan of bodies in van
25. Mid shot of crowd
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of bodies were pulled from a canal in the Nigerian city of Lagos on Monday after a fire at a munitions depot triggered a series of large explosions.
Panicked residents ran and drove into the Oke Afa canal as they fled the blasts Sunday evening at the nearby Ikeja military base.
Witnesses said the victims apparently didn't realize how deep the water was, as the canal is covered with water hyacinths.
Lagos State Police Commissioner Mike Okiro confirmed the incident, but had no details on the number of people killed or injured.
Dozens of explosions, which began shortly before 6:00 p.m local time (1700 GMT) Sunday, sent a fireworks display of artillery ammunition hundreds of metres into the sky.
The blasts, which shook the city's northern neighborhoods and shattered windows at the international airport 10 kilometres (six miles) away, continued into the early morning hours.
Rescuer workers and volunteers in small fishing boats used long poles to search the canal for bodies Monday in Lagos' northern Isolo neighborhood.
Thousands of people gathered on the water's edge, crying and wailing each time rescuers located a body.
Strewn among the water hyacinth were a woman's pink shoe and a baby's slipper.
It was not immediately clear how many people died in the blasts.
President Olusegun Obasanjo toured the base Monday morning, addressing hundreds of soldiers and their families who had fled the barracks.
He promised the military would investigate the cause of the accident.
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