The scene of the disaster is two kilometres away from the Dendo community in Agaie Local government Area.
An image shows the devastation from a petrol tanker explosion.
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Alhaji Abdullahi- Baba-Arah, Director-General, Niger Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), disclosed this in a statement in Minna on Sunday.
He said the agency received a report of a deadly tanker explosion that occurred on Sunday at about 12:30 am along the Bida-Agaie-Lapai highway.
According to him, the scene of the disaster is two kilometres away from the Dendo community in Agaie Local government Area.
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He said the incident occurred when a petrol tanker loaded with petrol (PMS) collided with a trailer truck loaded with travellers and cattle from Wudil in Kano State en route to Lagos.
Baba-Arah said two other vehicles, a crane truck and a pickup van, were involved in the multiple incidents.
He disclosed that over 30 people have been confirmed dead, with over 50 cattle burnt alive.
The director-general said the agency’s ‘Rapid Respond Team (RRT) and other ‘Local Emergency Management Committees (LGEMCs)’ were still at the scene of the incident.
He said that they were conducting search and rescue operations as more corpses were still trapped inside the ill-fated trucks.
