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Jun 2, 2015

TANKER EXPLOTION * Nigeria: Brakes failed

* Anambra State -  Runaway oil tanker kills 69 in horrific explosion in bus station

-- Nigeria's Red Cross says a runaway oil tanker truck exploded in a crowded bus station in the south of the country, igniting 11 other vehicles and burning 69 people to death... Red Cross Chairman Peter Emeka Kathy said on Monday (1 June) that about 30 other victims have been hospitalised with severe burns... The tanker was laden with petrol when its brakes failed on Sunday (31 May) night and it ploughed into the bus station at Onitsha, the capital of southern Anambra State, according to local officials... Neglected refineries mean that Nigeria, Africa's biggest crude oil producer, is almost entirely reliant on imports for the 40 million litres of gasoline it consumes each day... 
(Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP - The congested bus station in Onitsha where a tanker exploded and set other vehicles alight)  --  Onitsha, Nigeria - IB Times, by Elsa Buchanan & Ludovica Iaccino - June 1, 2015

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