Mass funerals are taking place in northwestern Nigeria for more than 150 people who died in a fuel tanker explosion, many killed as they tried to collect petrol that had spilled onto the road.
Reporting from Abuja, Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris said on Thursday that the death toll from the disaster had reached 157, with health workers in Jigawa State saying more than 100 others were being treated in hospitals, the severity of their burns and injuries indicating that the death toll could rise.
