People filling up cooking gas cylinders for Christmas were caught up in massive explosion sparked by tanker truck at plant in Nnewi city,say witnesses A gas tanker truck ignited a huge explosion at a crowded industrial gas plant in Nigeria on Thursday, killing more than 100 people lining up to refill their cooking gas cylinders in time for Christmas.
The catastrophe took position in Nnewi, and a predominantly Christian city in south-east Nigeria. An Associated Press reporter counted more than 100 corpses after firefighters put out the final of the flames.
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Source: theguardian.com