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9 March – Nigeria – A train crashed into a government staff bus at the Shogunle Level Crossing in Lagos killing six and injuring 97. [144] 17 March – United States – In Anacortes, Washington, two BNSF Railway locomotives derailed and spilled more than 3,000 US gallons (11,360 L) of diesel fuel. [145]
Dozens of people in northern Nigeria were killed in a massive explosion as they tried to scoop up fuel from a crashed tanker truck. Fuel tanker truck explosion kills more than 140 people in ...
At least 26 people died and several others were missing after a ferry capsized on a reservoir in north central Nigeria on Sunday, local officials said, the second such major accident to hit the ...
[5] [6] While traveling on an expressway near the town of Majiya in Jigawa State, the tanker overturned while attempting to avoid crashing into a truck, causing petrol to spill onto the road. Many villagers came to the scene and tried to scoop up the spilled petrol, some source claiming a generator was in use in order to collect the petrol [ 7 ] .
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Eight passengers were confirmed dead and an estimated 100 were missing after their overloaded boat capsized in north-central Nigeria, the emergency services said Tuesday.
On February 9, 2024, an Eurocopter EC130 crashed in the Mojave Desert near Nipton, California around 10:00 p.m. PST. Six people were on board, including Nigerian banker Herbert Wigwe and former Nigerian Exchange Group Plc Chairman Abimbola Ogunbanjo. There were no survivors. [1]
With the continued dangerous trend of road traffic accidents in Nigeria then, which placed it as one of the most road traffic accident (RTA) prone countries worldwide (the most in Africa) in 2013, [6] the Nigerian government saw the need to establish the present Federal Road Safety Corps in 1988 to address the carnage on the highways.
At least 26 people, mostly women and children died when a boat carrying more than 100 farmers capsized early Sunday in north-central Nigeria, the region’s second boat tragedy in three months ...