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Tuesday, 29 January, 2002, 00:15 GMT

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.

Blasts light up the Lagos sky

People gather around a destroyed building in Lagos

Angry youths display the shell of a bomb that landed in a private building

Fires burning

People look at bodies retrieved from the canal

Smoke billowing from fires

Fires burning

A woman cries as her child's dead body is carried away from the canal

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