{"id":41966,"date":"2024-09-09T11:21:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T11:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=41966"},"modified":"2024-09-09T11:21:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T11:21:39","slug":"more-than-50-killed-in-nigeria-fuel-tanker-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=41966","title":{"rendered":"More than 50 killed in Nigeria fuel tanker crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 50 people have been killed in central Nigeria&#8217;s Niger state, after a fuel tanker collided with a lorry carrying passengers and cattle, the country&#8217;s disaster agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Niger State Emergency Management Agency said the collision happened at about 00:30 local time on Sunday (23:30 GMT Saturday), and caused an explosion which engulfed both vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Director-general of the agency, Abdullahi Baba-arah, said response teams were dispatched to the scene to manage the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A number of other vehicles were also caught up in the explosion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: At least 50 people have been killed in central Nigeria&#8217;s Niger state, after a fuel tanker collided with a lorry carrying passengers and cattle, the country&#8217;s disaster agency said. The Niger State Emergency Management Agency said the collision happened at about 00:30 local time on Sunday (23:30 GMT Saturday), and caused an explosion which engulfed both vehicles. Director-general of the agency, Abdullahi Baba-arah, said response teams were dispatched to the scene to manage the situation. A number of other vehicles were also caught up in the explosion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41968,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41966\/revisions\/41968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}