Nigerian fuel tanker explosion kills 35, road safety agency says

Deadly incidents involving petroleum products are communal successful Nigeria wherever substance is transported by road, owed to a deficiency of pipelines.

A substance tanker has overturned and exploded successful Nigeria’s bluish Niger State, sidesplitting astatine slightest 35 people, according to the country’s Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC).

The conveyance skidded disconnected the roadworthy and spilled petrol, which ignited soon aft the crash, Aishatu Saadu, the state’s FRSC assemblage commander, said connected Tuesday.

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Nigeria’s TVC News reported that respective much radical who were injured successful the clang were taken to the Federal Medical Centre Bida for aesculapian attention, with Nigeria’s Channels Television reporting that radical were suffering from terrible burns.

Niger State Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago offered his “deepest condolences” to the radical of Essa successful the Katcha section authorities area, wherever helium said successful a connection the tanker detonation “claimed galore lives and near respective others injured”.

The governor’s main property secretary, Bologi Ibrahim, added successful the connection that respective of the radical who were caught up successful the detonation had approached the tanker aft it turned connected its side, to effort to retrieve its contents.

“This is yet different painful, difficult, and tragic 1 for the radical and the authorities government,” Bago said successful the statement.

The president of the Niger State tanker drivers’ association, Farouk Mohammed Kawo, said that the calamity was “devastating and avoidable,” according to Channels Television.

The tanker was transporting petrol from Lagos successful bluish Nigeria erstwhile it crashed, Kawo said, adding that immoderate 30 crashes person been recorded connected the aforesaid way successful the period of October alone, and that the precocious complaint of accidents is owed to the “deplorable authorities of the road”.

Deadly incidents involving petroleum products are communal successful Africa’s astir populous country, wherever a lack of pipeline infrastructure means fossil fuels are transported by road.

Poorly maintained roads riddled with potholes lend to predominant accidents that termination dozens of radical annually.