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The involved tanker came from Kano and had driven around 110 kilometers on its way to Yobe State on 15 October. [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.
On January 18, 2025, a fuel tanker carrying roughly 60,000 liters of petrol overturned at the Dikko junction near Suleja, Niger State, northern Nigeria, where after crashing local residents gathered to collect spilled fuel. The fuel promptly caused an explosion which killed 98 people and injured another 69, including at least 52 critically.
The death toll from a fuel tanker explosion in northern Nigeria has risen to at least 153, with another 100 people injured, police told CNN Thursday. The blast, which happened late evening local ...
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.
The Boksburg explosion took place on 24 December 2022, when a fuel tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) exploded underneath a railway bridge in Boksburg, in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, [1] with a death toll of 41 people as of 18 January 2023. [2] Nearby infrastructure was damaged by the explosion.
A massive fuel tanker explosion on the Florida’s Turnpike north of Boynton Beach Blvd. near the Hypoluxo overpass just before 6 a.m., Friday, Dec. 8 shut down the turnpike for most of the morning.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -A fuel truck explosion on a road in Haiti's southern peninsula on Saturday killed 24 people and left half of the 40 injured survivors with third-degree burns, the ...
On 14 December 2021, a fuel tank truck exploded in the Samari neighborhood of Cap-Haïtien, [1] the capital city of the Haitian department of Nord.At least 90 people were killed and more than 120 were injured; many people were injured as a result of rushing towards the tanker, likely to collect some of its cargo, before the explosion occurred.