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This Photo Shows a Lagos Oil Pipeline Explosion in 2008

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26th April 2022
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This Photo Shows a Lagos Oil Pipeline Explosion in 2008
This Photo Shows a 2008 Oil Pipeline Explosion in Lagos (Getty).

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Recently, newspapers and websites have been circulating a photo claiming to be from the site of an oil depot explosion in Nigeria on Saturday, April 23, 2022.

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