48 passengers, 50 cows killed in Niger tanker hearth



48 passengers, 50 cows killed in Niger tanker hearth

40-eight individuals showed useless within the petrol tanker explosion on Sunday got a pile burial within the Agaie Native Executive Department of Niger Order.

PUNCH Metro collected that the incident happened within the early hours of Sunday when the petrol tanker had a head-on accident with a truck loaded with travellers and farm animals from Wudil in Kano Order.

The Director-Normal of the Niger Order Crisis Control Company, Abdullahi Baba-Arab, who gave the replace, additionally showed that the 48 individuals have been burnt past reputation necessitating the pile burial within the native govt.

In line with him, following additional seek and rescue operations, 18 extra our bodies have been recovered from the 30 our bodies previous reported.

“Following further search and rescue operation, my agency discovered 18 more bodies which were also burnt to death and all the dead have been given a mass burial,” he stated.

Baba-Arab disclosed this in a commentary the place he asserted that the incident came about at about 12.30 am alongside Lapai-Agaie, 2km from the Dendo society in Agaie LGA.

He additionally stated over 50 farm animals have been burnt, and a crane truck and a pickup van have been stuck up within the inferno.

The commentary learn, “NSEMA has won a record of a fatal tanker explosion that happened on Sunday, September 8, 2024, at about 12.30 am alongside Lapai-Agaie, 2km from Dendo Population in Agaie LGA.

“The incident happened when a petroleum tanker loaded with PMS collided with a truck loaded with travellers and farm animals from Wudil in Kano Order heading to Lagos, two alternative automobiles, a crane truck and a pickup van, have been additionally stuck within the incident.

“Over 30 people are already confirmed dead, with over 50 cattle burnt. NSEMA’s Rapid Respond Team, in conjunction with the LGEMCs, is still on the scene of the incident conducting a search and rescue operation as more corpses are still trapped inside the trucks.”

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