Deadly fire in Nairobi slum

More than 100 people were burnt to death and a similar number were taken to hospital after a petrol fire ignited by a cigarette butt broke out in a densely populated slum in the Kenyan capital on Monday. Flames leapt out from the pipeline in a radius of some 300 meters, setting shacks ablaze and incinerating scores of people, leaving charred bodies and blacked bones in the charred homes, some of which had been built right up to the pipeline. The fire apparently started after a fuel tank at a depot belonging to the Kenya Pipeline Company spilled fuel into an open sewer flowing through the slum. The pipeline runs through the densely populated Sinai slum area between Nairobi's city centre and the airport. Residents of the slum tried to scoop up the fuel from the burst pipe and from the sewer, but were burnt when the petrol ignited after someone tossed a cigarette butt into the sewer. Listen