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Nigeria fuel tanker crash
By AfricaTimes on June 1, 2015
Up to 70 people were killed in Nigeria, many of them burnt alive, when a fuel tanker crashed into a busy bus station in the southeast city of Onitsha and exploded, Red Cross officials said on Monday.
Dozens of others were injured in the Sunday afternoon incident, in which 13 nearby vehicles were also incinerated.
A police spokesman said the tanker was speeding before it veered out of control. He put the death toll at 23, with seven injured.
The accident came five days after the end of a strike by fuel marketers who halted distribution as part of a pay dispute with the outgoing government, which was replaced on Friday by an administration led by former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari.
