Petrol tanker blast kills 14 in Nigeria
KANO, NIGERIA: A petrol tanker skidded off a highway and exploded in executive Nigeria, murdering during slightest 14 people on Friday, witnesses told AFP.
They pronounced 8 houses were razed following a collision that happened around 8:00 am (0700GMT) in a movement city of Tegina in Niger state. “We buried 14 people including a six-month-old baby who died in a tanker blast this morning,” pronounced Muhammad Sani who took partial in a rescue operation.
Eight some-more victims were taken to sanatorium with burns, dual of them in “very vicious condition” while 8 homes were burnt in a inferno, pronounced another proprietor Abdullahi Egiworo. A orator for Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in a state reliable a accident, though refused to give misadventure figures.
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“We perceived reports of an collision involving a petrol tanker in Tegina this morning though we are still available details,” Bitrus Max told AFP. He pronounced puncture officials were streamer to a stage to support in a depletion of victims.
Accidents involving petrol tankers occur frequently on Nigeria’s feeble confirmed roads since of speeding and negligence for trade rules. Last month, 3 people were killed when a petrol tanker collided with a trailer and exploded on a highway joining Nigeria’s blurb heart of Lagos with a rest of a country.
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