ABUJA, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian police on Monday confirmed that dozens of people were killed in a fuel tanker explosion in the country's southwestern state of Ondo Sunday.
The victims of the accident were trapped in a fire while scooping fuel from the fuel tanker which veered off the road and toppled on its side after involved in an accident in the Ore town of Ondo, Funmilayo Odunlami, the spokeswoman for the police in Ondo, told Xinhua by telephone.
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