Niger gasoline tanker explosion kills at minimum 55 – Tek Portal

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The explosion occurred late Sunday on the street primary to the airport in Niamey, the cash of the West African nation.
An additional 37 persons have been hurt in the explosion, Inside Minister Mohamed Bazoum reported in a Twitter put up.
“It was just right before midnight when I went out and I saw the truck overturned. Individuals came from almost everywhere to choose gas, then I saw fireplace on its facet and every thing burst into flames,” a faculty university student explained to Agence France-Presse.
Bazoum visited the site of the incident with President Issoufou Mahamadou and posted in French on his Twitter account: “This early morning with the #PM at the website of a tragedy at the Airport district following the overturning of a tanker truck not considerably from a gasoline station. Though some citizens were being making an attempt to siphon gasoline, the truck exploded.”

The President also visited some of the injured in a hospital and named the incident a “countrywide tragedy.”
“I would like to increase my most heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families. May well the departed rest in peace and speedy restoration to the wounded,” he stated.
Several of the wounded suffered critical burns and the dying toll is anticipated to rise.
Oil tanker mishaps are widespread in neighboring Nigeria, which is a significant oil producer.
Last October, 20 automobiles and four commercial motorcycles had been burned when a tanker spilled petroleum on a chaotic highway.

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