At least 48 people have died after a fuel tanker collided with another vehicle in north-central Nigeria.
According to the report of the foreign news agency “Reuters”, the state emergency management agency of the north-central state of Niger said that the fuel tanker collided with another truck, which was full of passengers and livestock, and several other vehicles were also affected in the accident. are
Agency spokesman Hussain Ibrahim put the death toll at 48 while authorities are still trying to clear the scene.
Nigeria’s state-owned firm NNPC Ltd raised the price of petrol by at least 39 percent last week, the second major price increase in more than a year, but shortages persisted, affecting the country’s major markets. In cities and towns, vehicles were forced to stand in long queues for hours.
