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Another Taker explosion kills 30, injures 40 in Niger

By Daniel Ebi, Minna
A devastating tanker explosion has reportedly kill no fewer than fewer than 30 people and injured about 40 others in a Niger community.
The death toll may increase as a result of the an reportedly been killed and accident involving a trailer and a tanker which exploded .
Most of the victims were said to be scooping petroleum product in a community of Niger state.

An eyewitness said that the accident occurred around 11 am on Tuesday morning at Essan and Badeggi communities between Bida to Agaie road in Katcha local government of the state.
It was reliably gathered that the affected victims were involved in the scooping of petroleum product when it exploded.
The source said most of the Victims were burnt beyond recognition while the injured were taking to the hospital for treatment.
The Niger State chairman of Tanker Drivers and Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) National Ex-Officio, Comrade Farouk Mohammed Kawo confirmed the incident in an interview in Minna.
He said that the tanker was coming from Lagos to the Northern part carrying petroleum product when the accident occurred.
Comrade Farouk Kawo lamented that over 30 tanker trailers had been involved in accident within this month of October in that particular area of the road that is very bad for motorists plying the route.
He revealed that youths in the community have continued to scoop oil from their accidents vehicles including last Sunday when a tanker trailer carrying groundnut oil had an accident and its product was scooped among others in the same area.
The chairman state tanker trailer drivers however appealed to the Niger state government under the leadership of Governor Mohammed Umar Bago to urgently come to their aide by grading the particular area to ease their movement and lost of lives and properties.
The Federal Road safety Corps are yet to respond to inquiries about the incident at the time of filing this report.