At least 105 people have been killed and 70 left wounded in northern Nigeria after a crashed tanker exploded near locals who had gathered to retrieve fuel on Tuesday.
The toll is expected to rise from the blast, which happened late evening local time on Tuesday in Majiya, a village in Jigawa state.
mass burial was to be held for the victims of the accident on Wednesday morning. The injured were being treated at the Ringim General Hospital, not far from the crash site.
Eyewitnesses said the casualty figures were so high because, as often happens at accident scenes involving fuel trucks, locals arrived quickly in hopes of taking some of the spilled fuel.
“The residents were scooping up fuel from the overturned tanker when the explosion occurred, sparking a massive inferno that killed 94 people on the spot,” police spokesperson Lawan Adam told The Associated Press.
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