Explosion Kills Three in Katsina

Three people were killed when two fuel-laden articulated vehicles exploded at Gyazama village, along the Funtua-Birnin Gwari road in Dandume Local Government Area of Katsina State.

Alhaji Abdulkadir Muhammad, the Transition Committee Chairman of Dandume Local Government Council, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dandume that four other persons sustained burns of various degrees.

He said six houses were also burnt in the resultant inferno which occurred on Saturday evening.

NAN reports that the blaze started when some drivers were transferring fuel from a broken-down vehicle to another through the use of a pumping machine.

Muhammad said two of the deceased were the operators of the pumping machine, while those who sustained burns were...