{"id":89092,"date":"2024-09-09T11:53:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T07:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=89092"},"modified":"2024-09-09T16:47:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T12:47:05","slug":"48-die-in-fuel-tanker-accident-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/world\/89092\/","title":{"rendered":"48 die in fuel tanker accident in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At least 48 people have been killed in the central Nigerian state of Niger, after a fuel tanker collided with a lorry carrying passengers and cattle, the BBC<\/a> writes, referring to the country’s disaster agency.<\/p>\n

The Niger State Emergency Management Agency said the collision happened at about 12:30 a.m. local time on Sunday, and caused an explosion which engulfed both vehicles.<\/p>\n

Director-general of the agency, Abdullahi Baba-arah, said response teams were dispatched to the scene to manage the situation.<\/p>\n

A number of other vehicles were also caught up in the explosion.<\/p>\n

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At least 48 people have been killed in the central Nigerian state of Niger, after a fuel tanker collided with a lorry carrying passengers and cattle, the BBC writes, referring to the country’s disaster agency. The Niger State Emergency Management Agency said the collision happened at about 12:30 a.m. local time on Sunday, and caused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":89027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}