{"id":18663,"date":"2025-01-18T21:28:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T17:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/nigerian-gasoline-tanker-explosion-kills-at-least-70-people\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T21:28:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T17:58:31","slug":"nigerian-gasoline-tanker-explosion-kills-at-least-70-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/nigerian-gasoline-tanker-explosion-kills-at-least-70-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian gasoline tanker explosion kills at least 70 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5338049.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The blast happened in the early hours of Saturday near the Suleja area of Niger state after individuals attempted to transfer gasoline from one tanker into another truck using a generator, according to AP.<\/p>\n<p>The fuel transfer sparked the explosion, resulting in the deaths of those transferring the gasoline and bystanders, Hussaini Isah, of the National Emergency Management Agency, told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Search and rescue operations were underway, Isah said.<\/p>\n<p>With the absence of an efficient railway system to transport cargo, fatal truck accidents are common along most of the major roads in Nigeria, Africa\u2019s most populous country.<\/p>\n<p>In September, an explosion killed at least 48 people in Niger state after gasoline tanker collided with another truck conveying cattle.<\/p>\n<p>There were 1,531 gasoline tanker crashes in 2020 resulting in 535 fatalities and 1,142 injuries, according to Nigeria\u2019s Federal Road Safety Corps.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/227101\/Nigerian-gasoline-tanker-explosion-kills-at-least-70-people\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blast happened in the early hours of Saturday near the Suleja area of Niger state after individuals attempted to transfer gasoline from one tanker into another truck using a generator, according to AP. The fuel transfer sparked the explosion, resulting in the deaths of those transferring the gasoline and bystanders, Hussaini Isah, of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}