At least 30 people were killed after five oil tankers caught fire following an explosion in a southern Nigerian city. The fire was caused by suspected vandals, who stole products from NNPC pipeline.

30 dead in Nigeria as oil tankers catch fire

Fire fighters battled to put off the fire. Last week, a similar fire incident killed 200 people in the same state. Fuel leaks and oil tanker accidents in Nigeria often draw huge crowds scrambling to scoop fuel, resulting in many deaths due to accidental fires. Many hundreds of people have died over the last decade when trying to take fuel leaking from pipelines that have broken. Nigeria is a major oil exporter, but millions of its citizens live in poverty.