In pictures: Lagos explosions

A full inquiry has been ordered into a devastating series of explosions at an army munitions dump in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, which killed at least 600 people, including many children.

A fire in Ikeja military barracks set off explosives which landed across the city

The force of the blasts destroyed surrounding buildings

Parts of bombs went flying into private homes

President Olusegun Obasanjo has ordered an inquiry

Hundreds are reported to have drowned in a canal in Isolo as they tried to flee the explosions

The Nigerian army says the fires are now under control.

Some feared that the explosions signalled another coup, in a country where military rule ended in 1999

Lagos Governor Bola Tinubu called it a national disaster