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Nigeria fuel truck blast kills five

By AFP
June 19, 2021

LAGOS: Five people were killed and 13 injured when a gas-laden tanker truck exploded and caught fire in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos, the emergency services said on Friday. The incident which happened late on Thursday on a road in Ikeja district, is the latest in series of tanker explosions in Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil and gas producer.