3 people killed in petrol tanker explosion in NE Nigeria

LAGOS: OCT. 14 – Three people were killed and two others injured when a petrol tanker exploded in northeast Nigeria’s Adamawa state, an official said on Wednesday.

Mohammed Sulaiman, executive secretary of the Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency, told reporters at a press briefing in Yola, the state capital, that the victims were burnt to death in a petrol tanker fire outbreak in the Mubi area of the state in the early hours of Wednesday.