New Delhi, Oct 16: In a tragic incident, at least 94 people were killed and several were left injured in an oil tanker explosion in Nigeria on Wednesday.
The explosion occurred past midnight when locals were scooping up fuel from an overturned that killed 94 people on the spot, police sources said.
Worth mentioning, earlier in the last month, a fuel tanker when collided head-on with another truck on a fateful Sunday causing an explosion that killed at least 48 people, the country's emergency response agency said.
The fuel tanker was also carrying cattle in the Agaie area in north-central Niger state and at least 50 of them were burned alive, Abdullahi Baba-Arab, director-general of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency, said.