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The BBC's Africa Eye investigates an explosion in March, in Lagos, Nigeria.

What caused an explosion in March that destroyed an area of more than 100,000 square metres in Lagos, Nigeria? The BBC's Africa Eye investigates.

An explosion in Lagos, Nigeria rocked the city to its core. 23 people were killed, and a girls' boarding school totally destroyed. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, the country's state-owned oil firm, said the blast in March occurred as a result of a truck that hit gas cylinders near one of its petroleum pipelines. But BBC Africa Eye's investigation indicates this explanation for the cause of the blast, that decimated over 100,000 square metres of the city, is wrong.

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