At least 48 killed as fuel tanker hits truck, causing explosion in Nigeria
Al Jazeera
Truck carrying people and cattle crashes head-on with tanker in Agaie area in the north-central Niger state.
A fuel tanker has collided with another truck in Nigeria, causing an explosion that killed at least 48 people, according to the country’s emergency response agency.
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 on Sunday.
Search-and-rescue operations were under way at the scene of the accident, he said.
Baba-Arab said initially that 30 bodies were found. But in a later statement, he said there were an additional 18 bodies of victims who were burned to death in the collision. He said the dead had been given a mass burial.
It was initially unclear how many others were injured.
