Explosion kills at least 48 people as fuel tanker collides with truck in Nigeria

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********** ****** at least 48 people as fuel tanker collides with truck in Nigeria

A fuel tanker collided head-on with another truck in Nigeria on Sunday causing an ********** that ******* 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 ****** state and at least 50 of them were burned alive, Abdullahi Baba-*****, director-general of the ****** State Emergency Management Agency, said.

Search and rescue operations were underway at the scene of the accident, Baba-***** said.

Baba-***** said initially that 30 bodies were found but in a later statement said an additional 18 bodies of victims who were burned to ****** in the collision were found. He said the ***** had been given a mass burial.

Mohammed Bago, governor of ****** state, said residents of the affected area should remain calm and asked road users to “always be cautious and abide by road traffic regulations to safeguard lives and property.”

With the absence of an efficient railway system to transport cargo, fatal truck accidents are common along most of the major roads in Nigeria, *******’s most populous country.

In 2020 alone, there were 1,531 gasoline tanker crashes resulting in 535 fatalities and 1,142 injuries, according to Nigeria’s Federal Road Safety Corps.

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