An unconfirmed number of people have died in Minna, the capital of Niger State, following an explosion on Saturday morning.
The victims were scooping petrol from a fallen tanker around Dikko Junction, an expressway between Niger and Kaduna, when it caught fire.
The state government said the explosion killed some of the residents at the scene.
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In a statement that confirmed the incident, Bologi Ibrahim, the Chief Press Secretary to Mohammed Umaru Bago, governor of Niger State, said that “the tanker explosion claimed several lives in Dikko junction, around the Abuja-Kaduna expressway”.
In October, more than 105 people were burnt to death in Majiya, Jigawa State, after residents made an attempt to scoop petrol from a fallen tanker.
FIJ reported that the fire from the explosion raged for nearly four hours.
In the same month, in Cross River State, residents of Small Iwuru, Akamkpa, were seen in a video, holding kegs and buckets as they rushed to the scene of another fallen tanker to get the leaking fuel.
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