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Fuel tanker explosion in northern Nigeria kills more than 140 people – video
A fuel tanker explosion in northern Nigeria caused the deaths of more than 140 people and injured 50 more, according to local police. Footage circulating on social media and verified by Reuters showed people panicking and shouting amid widespread fires. Local authorities said the vehicle crashed late on Tuesday night after the driver lost control on the Kano-Hadejia expressway near the town of Majiya in Jigawa state. Shi’isu Adam, a spokesperson of the Jigawa police said, people attempted to scoop up oil after the crash and did not heed a warning by authorities to stay away from the vehicle.
A fuel tanker explosion in northern Nigeria has killed more than 140 people, a spokesman for the national emergency agency told AFP on Wednesday.
Victims were burnt to death on Tuesday trying to collect fuel that had spilled from the crashed vehicle in the town of Majia in Jigawa state.
More than 140 people, including children, were killed in Nigeria when an overturned gasoline tanker truck exploded in flames while they tried to scoop up fuel, emergency services said Wednesday. Dozens more were injured.
Explosion kills scores of Nigerians collecting fuel from crashed tanker
People were collecting fuel from tanker that had crashed when it blew up, according to local police
More than 140 people have died in an explosion while rushing to scoop up fuel from a crashed tanker in north-west Nigeria, in one of the country’s worst such incidents in recent times.
Local authorities said the vehicle crashed late on Tuesday night after the driver lost control on the Kano-Hadejia expressway near the town of Majiya in Jigawa state. It then exploded while onlookers were scooping spilt fuel with cups and buckets.
“People gathered around the accident scene,” Shi’isu Adam, a spokesperson of the Jigawa police command, was quoted as saying in a local newspaper, the Cable. “That is the reason for the mass casualty.”
More than 140 people, including children, were killed in Nigeria when an overturned gasoline tanker truck exploded in flames while they tried to scoop up fuel, emergency services said Wednesday.
Dozens more were injured.
Deadly tanker accidents are common in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, which lacks an efficient railway system to transport cargo.
More than 140 people have been killed and dozens injured as they rushed to scoop up fuel when a petrol tanker overturned and then exploded.
A mass burial for the victims has been held in Majia, a town in the Taura area of northern Jigawa state, after the crash there late on Tuesday night.
The driver lost control on a highway according to police spokesman Lawan Adam.
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