Scenes of devastation after explosions

Описание: (28 Jan 2002)
Night shots, early morning:
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. Various through broken hospital window of other damaged buildings
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox pop, witness:
"People were just rushing to the place and it wasn't until a bigger explosion that went boom that everyone just started running. There was a sort of mass evacuation. Everybody was just going and nobody knew where they were going.
7. Impact hole in ground, with debris
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox pop, witness:
"You see, this is my means of livelihood. It is in ruins. I don't even know where to start from. You have to go in there to see the extent of the destruction. I think the government must do something for us. That landed right in front of my office. The government has to do something."
9. pan to broken windows
10. 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."
11. Nigerian President's car arriving at scene of explosions
12. Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigerian President, getting out of car
13. Various of President walking through crowd
14. 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."
15. Wide of crowd
STORYLINE:
Rescue workers pulled more than 200 bodies from a canal on Monday after a series of large explosions at a munitions depot shook Nigeria's commercial capital, destroying homes and businesses over a wide area, news reports said.
Police and other rescue workers removed the bodies from Oke Afa canal in Lagos' northern Isolo neighborhood, a short distance from the scene of the explosions, independent radio stations reported.
Lagos State Police Commissioner Mike Okilo said panicked residents had jumped and driven into the canal as they fled the blasts at the Ikeja military base on Sunday evening. But he had no information on the number of people killed or injured.
The chain of large blasts at the military munitions dump destroyed homes and at least one church and school.
The total number of dead has not yet been established.
Earlier Army Brigadier General George Emdin had said there was "absolutely no one killed," although an Associated Press reporter saw the body of a young man on a street outside the base.
A journalist with Lagos' respected Guardian newspaper witnessed 12 bodies and numerous wounded being carried from the base on Sunday evening, the Guardian reported.
President Olusegun Obasanjo toured the base on 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.
Flames and sharp cracking noises could still be heard inside the munitions dump on Monday morning - even after fires and major blasts had died down.
Dozens of explosions, which began shortly before 6:00 p.m. (1700 GMT) on Sunday, sent a fireworks display of artillery ammunition hundreds of metres (yards) into the sky.

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