More than 140 people, including children, have been killed and dozens others injured after a fuel tanker overturned and blew up in Nigeria on Wednesday. The overturned tanker sparked an explosion ...

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.

Fuel tanker explosions make up a small portion of reported road-related deaths in Nigeria, a country of about 220 million people where more than 5,000 people died and 31,000 others were injured in ...

More than 160 people died when an overturned fuel tanker in northern Nigeria exploded. Witnesses and relatives of victims said poverty had driven most to try to collect the spilled gas.

No fewer than 349 lives have been lost in various disasters that occurred between September 2024 and May 2025 across Niger State.

Nigeria's Federal Road Safety Corps says the country recorded more than 1,500 tanker accidents and 535 deaths in 2020 alone. Last month, 48 people were killed in Nigeria’s Niger state when ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — More than 140 people, including children, were killed in Nigeria when an overturned gasoline tanker truck exploded in flames while they tried to scoop up fuel, emergency ...

More than 100 people were killed and 50 others injured, after a gasoline tanker overturned and exploded in Nigeria, police reported on Wednesday.. The incident occurred when dozens of people ...

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 ...

More than 150 people have been killed and dozens of others wounded after an overturned fuel tanker exploded in northwestern Nigeria, authorities said. The crash on Tuesday night took place on an ...

Johannesburg — More than 140 people were killed and dozens more injured Tuesday night when a fuel tanker crashed and then exploded in Nigeria, local officials said.A police spokesperson said the ...