Niger: 60 burnt to death in petroleum tanker explosion

• Governor Bago condoles with victims’ families

From John Adams, Minna

Over 60 people were said to have been roasted to death at the popular Dikko Junction along the ever-busy Abuja-Kaduna highway in the Gurara local government area of Niger State when a petrol-laden tanker capsized early on Saturday morning.

Eyewitnesses said the petrol tanker, which was heading from Lagos to a northern…