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Up to 70 killed in Nigeria fuel tanker crash, many of which were burned alive

Nigeria:    Up to 70 people were killed in Nigeria, many of them burnt alive, when a fuel tanker crashed into a busy bus station in the southeast city of Onitsha and exploded, Red Cross officials said on Monday.

Dozens of others were injured in the Sunday afternoon incident, in which 13 nearby vehicles were also incinerated.

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