NIGERIA: The weekend fire and subsequent explosions may have killed thousands, Switzerland's ambassador to Nigeria said yesterday in an interview on Swiss German-language television.
"I think that the number of dead may be counted in thousands, rather than hundreds," the ambassador, Mr Rudolf Knoblauch, said in the telephone interview.
The ambassador quoted local media as saying Nigerian officials were to have moved the massive arms dump, located near the city's main airport, a long time ago.