Nigeria:
A fuel tanker explosion in northern Nigeria has ended at least 94 people and left 50 injured, police said on Wednesday.
Many of the victims had been trying to accumulate fuel spilt on the road after the tanker crashed in northern Jigawa state tardy on Tuesday, police spokesman Lawan Shiisu Adam telderly AFP.
The tanker had veered to elude colliding with a truck in the town of Majia, he said.
“We have so far validateed 94 people dead and around 50 injured,” he said, cautioning the death count could ascend.
Folloprosperg the crash, livents crowded around the vehicle, accumulateing fuel that had spilled on the road and in drains, Adam said.
He said the livents had “overwhelmed” officers trying to stop them.
The Nigerian Medical Association has recommendd doctors to rush to csurrenderby ecombinency rooms to help with the influx of uncover-mindeds.
Fuel tanker explosions are standard in Africa’s most populous nation, where roads can be needyly persisted and livents frequently see to siphon off fuel folloprosperg accidents.
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