69 killed in Nigerian fuel tanker explosion
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Sixty-nine 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 yesterday.
Dozens of others were injured in the Sunday afternoon incident, in which 13 nearby vehicles were also incinerated.
鈥淢ost people were burned beyond recognition,鈥 said Emeka Kachi, vice-president of the local Red Cross. 鈥淲e are transferring the corpses to a teaching hospital for DNA testing so that their relatives can identify them for a proper burial.鈥
A police spokesman said the tanker was speeding before it veered out of control. Though 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 by an administration led by ex-military ruler Muhammadu Buhari on Friday.
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