Nigeria|A tank truck had a head-on collision with a passenger and cattle truck.
At least 48 people died on Sunday in Nigeria when a tanker carrying fuel collided head-on with another vehicle and exploded. The accident was reported by the Nigerian Emergency Management Agency, and it was reported by the news agencies Reuters and AP.
The other party to the crash was a truck carrying passengers and livestock. Other vehicles were also involved in the accident.
The dead were buried in a mass grave.
The accident happened in Agaie area of Niger State in the central part of Nigeria.
News agency AP mentions as a background factor of the lack of an efficient railway network, the fact that cargo in Nigeria mainly travels along roads and there are a lot of explosion accidents in the transport of fuels.
In 2020 alone, there were 1,531 fuel transport accidents in Nigeria, killing 535 people and injuring 1,142.
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