Residents in Bida, Niger State, rushed to collect groundnut oil on Tuesday morning after a tanker overturned near Shafa filling station in Esso area. This is coming just three days after a tragic tanker explosion claimed 98 lives in Suleja Local Government Area.

About four people were thrown southward. We could hear them crying and screaming in the air,” Abubakar Jibrin, a witness who narrowly escaped the fire, told PREMIUM TIMES.

Despite a deadly tanker explosion that killed over 90 people days earlier, residents in Bida town, Niger State, gathered around

Such incidents are common in Niger State. On 8 September 2024, more than 50 travellers died in a midnight tanker explosion along the Agaie-Badeggi road. In 2022, another petrol-laden tanker exploded at Badeggi village near Bida. Although there were no casualties from the incident, the fire gutted two other vehicles.