A petrol truck overturned and exploded on Saturday in Dikko, Niger State, killing people who had gone to scoop up fuel from the wreckage.

"Eighty of them are in mass grave at Dikko (primary health centre), while five were carried away into town by relatives and one died at Dikko PHC," Baba-Ara said in a statement on Sunday.

A further 55 people were injured.

A similar accident occurred in Jigawa State in October killing 147 people.

The price of fuel has soared since 2023 when President Bola Tinubu ended a fuel subsidy as part of economic reform.

--Reuters--