Sabotage in Lagos blasts not ruled out

LAGOS, Nigeria -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said Sunday he had not ruled out sabotage as the cause of a series of explosions at an armory here that killed more than 1,000 people last week.

The cause of the blasts is still not known and investigations are under way.

"It could be negligence, it could be an accident, it could be sabotage, it could be anything," Obasanjo said on a television program.

Obasanjo said the conclusions of a military inquiry would be made public.

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Most of the dead were children who drowned in a canal during a stampede from the scene.

The Nigerian Red Cross, which reunited 1,800 children with their parents and is feeding 11,500 people displaced by the blasts, said 460 people remain unaccounted for.

"From everything I have seen, as more bodies have been found over the days, the number of people who are deceased is now over 1,000 people," said Home Affairs Commissioner Musiliu Obanikoro, speaking Saturday on the private Lagos radio station Rhythm.

Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu told Reuters: "We have almost completed the search for the bodies in the swamp. More than 1,000 in total have been registered as dead."

The Red Cross has set up two camps in the area for displaced people.