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At least 52 dead in fuel tanker explosion in northern Nigeria

A fuel tanker has collided with another truck in Nigeria, causing an explosion that killed at least 52 people, according to the country’s emergency response agency.

The fuel tanker was also carrying cattle in the Agaie area in north-central Niger state and at least 50 of them were burned alive, Abdullahi Baba-Arab, director-general of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency, said on Sunday.

Search-and-rescue operations were under way at the scene of the accident, he said.

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