48 killed in Nigerian fuel truck explosion

The State Emergency Management Agency in north-central Niger state said the fuel truck collided with a truck carrying travelers and cattle. Several other vehicles were also caught up in the accident, it said.
Local media reported that two of the other vehicles — a crane truck and a pickup van —were involved in the accident and caught in the fire.

The emergency management agency's spokesperson Hussaini Ibrahim put the death toll at 48 and officials were still trying to clear the scene of the incident, according to Voice of America.