More than 100 people have been finished and about 50 injured as they rushed to scoop up fuel when a petrol tanker obviousurned and then exploded.
It happened postponecessitate on Tuesday night in Majia, a town in the Taura area of northern Jigawa state, after the driver lost regulate on a highway, shelp police spokesman Lawan Adam.
“The livents were scooping up fuel from the obviousurned tanker when the explosion occurred, igniteing a massive inferno,” he shelp.
Head of Jigawa state’s ecombinency deal withment agency Dr Haruna Mairiga shelp 97 people were “burned to ashes” at the scene while eight died in hospital.
“If they knew [about the danger], they wouldn’t have gone to transport [the fuel],” shelp Dr Mairiga, inserting that it took disjoinal hours for ecombinency services to get to.
Video showed a huge fire and what ecombineed to be burning bodies strewn around the site.
Using buckets and cups to scavenge fuel has become more expansivespread amid a sencourage in prices in Africa’s most populous country.
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Those injured were getn to hospitals in Ringim and Hadejia towns, shelp state police official Lawan Shiisu.
Tanker accidents are normal in Nigeria, where most cargo is transferd by road due to a conciseage of an fruitful rail system and where traffic rules are freely executed in many places.
Police shelp the driver in Tuesday’s incident had travelled about 68 miles (110km) from neighbouring Kano state.
