A total of 86 people have died after a petrol tanker truck overturned and exploded in Niger state. Most of the victims were impoverished local residents who had rushed to scoop up the spilled petrol, local authorities said. The price of fuel in Nigeria has gone up by 400 percent since Nigeria's president ended decades-old subsidies.
The truck carrying 60,000 litres of petrol exploded after flipping over on a road in the centre of the country on Saturday, Nigerian authorities said.
