1.   Panicked residents ran and drove into the Oke Afa canal as they fled the blasts Sunday evening at the nearby Ikeja military base.

2.   Alake said a few bodies were still being recovered Saturday from the Oke Afa canal, where hundreds of people plunged to their deaths while fleeing the blasts.

3.   Lagos State Police Commissioner Mike Okilo said panicked residents had jumped and driven into the canal as they fled the blasts at the Ikeja military base Sunday evening.

4.   Lagos State Police Commissioner Mike Okilo said panicked residents jumped and drove into the canal as they fled the blasts at the Ikeja military base Sunday evening.

5.   Many of those who died were drowned in a canal as thousands fled the blasts in panic.

6.   State Police Commissioner Mike Okilo said panicked residents jumped and drove into the canal as they fled the blasts at the Ikeja military base Sunday evening.

7.   Thousands of people with bloody wounds fled the blast in terror.

8.   At least seven people also had been hurt while fleeing the blasts, but no direct injuries were reported, the doctor added.

9.   The victims, mostly children, were trampled or drowned in a canal while fleeing the blasts.

10.   Workers fleeing the blasts were stabbed or slashed to death by their attackers and others were wounded by shrapnel, police said.