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A man sits in front of a mass grave for victims of an explosion that followed the crash of a fuel tanker truck in Majia, Jigawa State, Nigeria, Oct. 16, 2024. / Credit: ALAMIN MOHAMMED/REUTERS
[9] [5] Police spokesman Lawan Shiisu Adam stated that at least 100 people, many critically, were injured by the explosion and were taken to hospitals in the towns of Ringim and Hadejia. [9] The Nigerian Medical Association urged doctors to go to nearby emergency facilities. [5] On 17 October mass funerals were organized. [6]
The death toll from a fuel tanker explosion in northern Nigeria has risen to at least 153 people and injured 100, police told CNN Thursday.
The Ecatepec de Morelos explosion was caused by a gas tanker similar to this one, owned by Mexican company Sonigas. On 7 May 2013, at about 05:15 local time (12:15 GMT), a gas tanker exploded in a BLEVE on Federal Highway 85 "México–Pachuca" in Ecatepec de Morelos, a municipality in the State of Mexico about 14 km (8.7 mi) north-east of ...
A chemical gas leak from a rail tanker in Whitewater Township, Ohio, prompted fears of an explosion and evacuation orders for people within at least a half-mile radius of the incident.
April 17, 2017 – A severed flow line, from a gas well, leads to a gas explosion in a home, killing 2 people, in Firestone, Colorado. [32] [33] May 8, 2017 – Fire broke out at a tank for a fracking well near Greeley. [34] May 25, 2017 – An oil tank explosion and fire in northern Colorado killed a worker, and burned three others. [35]
A fuel tanker collided head-on with another truck in Nigeria on Sunday causing an explosion that killed at least 48 people, the country’s emergency response agency said.
The Ibadan petrol tanker explosion was a major accident on the road from Ibadan to Ifẹ in Nigeria on 5 November 2000. There was a long tailback and a petrol tanker was unable to brake in time and so rammed the queue, causing an explosion and fire which destroyed over 100 vehicles and killed many people.