(28 Jan 2002)
1. Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo climbing on car into crowd
2. Pan of crowd
3. Wide shot of man on small boat in canal looking for bodies - and huge crowd behind
4. Mid shot of man on boat looking for bodies
5. Various of crowd standing on edge of Oke Afa canal watching rescue work
6. Mid shot of crowd and police
7. Mid shot of bodies on Oke Afa canal side - faces covered with leaves
8. Various of bodies
9. Close shot of mud-covered shoe on ground
10. Mid shot of shoes on ground
11. Pan of Oke Afa canal
12. Mid shot of bodies in van
13. Wide shot pan of bodies in van
14. 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 meters (yards) 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, a baby's slipper and a peace of bright orange and red cloth.
It was not immediately clear how many people died in the blasts themselves.
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 causes of the accident.
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