Those killed include local residents who gathered to collect fuel from the tanker after it crashed.

ABUJA | Xinhua |  At least 90 people were killed and 50 others sustained various degrees of injury after a gasoline tanker exploded in Nigeria’s northern state of Jigawa late Tuesday, police said on Wednesday. The victims were mostly people who had rushed to the scene to collect gasoline after the tanker lost control and …

The casualties were local residents who had gathered to collect fuel from the tanker after it crashed.

Nigeria gasoline tanker explosion: Deadly explosion in Nigeria kills 94 as people rush to scoop fuel from overturned gasoline tanker.

"Close to 140 people were put in a mass grave apart from people buried in other places," Nura Abdullahi, head of the National Emergency Management Agency in the region, told The Associated Press.

Emergency services say more than 100 people were killed and 50 others injured in northwestern Nigeria as they tried to scoop up fuel from an overturned petrol tanker, causing the vehicle to explode in flames.