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2011 Nairobi pipeline fire
The 2011 Nairobi pipeline fire was caused by an explosion secondary to a fuel spill in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on 12 September 2011. Approximately 100 people were killed in the fire and at least 116 others were hospitalized with varying degrees of burns.〔 The incident was not the first such pipeline accident in Kenya,〔 with the Molo fire of 2009 resulting in at least 133 fatalities and hundreds more injured.
==Causes==
A fuel tank, located in the industrial Lunga Lunga area of Nairobi and part of a pipeline system operated by the state owned Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC), had sprung a leak. People in the adjacent densely populated shanty town of Sinai had started to collect leaking fuel when at about 10 a.m. a massive explosion occurred at the scene. Fire spread to the Sinai area.
The cause of the explosion has not yet been determined but some reports indicate that the fire might have started from a discarded cigarette〔 or when the wind changed, bringing embers from nearby garbage fires.
Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi is reported as saying that the disaster began when a pipeline valve failed under pressure allowing the oil to leak into the sewer.〔 Selest Kilinda, the managing director of KPC, is reported to have said the spill occurred from two pipelines, and that engineers had already depressurised the Sinai pipeline but not in time to prevent fuel leaking into the sewer.〔
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