Fuel tanker collision in Nigeria caused an explosion that killed at least 48 people

Associated Press

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s emergency response agency says a fuel tanker has collided head-on with another truck causing an explosion that killed at least 48 people. The fuel tanker was also carrying cattle in the Agaie area in north-central Niger state Sunday, causing at least 50 cattle to be burned alive. That’s according to the director-general of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency. Search and rescue operations were underway at the scene of the accident. An official said initially that 30 bodies were found but in a later statement said an additional 18 bodies of victims who were burned to death in the explosion were found. He said the dead had been given a mass burial.