[Xploit Machine]

11 Injured and multiple died after a petrol tanker explodes at Oluku market in Edo, Nigeria.

On 15 October 2026, a petrol tanker overturned. Residents scooped the spilled fuel before it exploded later that day, with the fire spreading to nearby shops and vehicles.

[gimlet]

Somebody needs to chill those nigerians out

[yah]

Maybe they should post PSA posters of dead/dying/burnt people on the side of tankers.

[kbt3168]

But there was free fuel for the fools.

[kellyhound]

It took five and a half hourss for it to explode. Liquid petrol itself does not explode but it is the vapor mixing with oxygen that is highly volatile. When the tanker initially overturned, the fuel was pooling in the drainage channels. It took several hours for the fuel to volatilize, creating a dense, invisible cloud of highly flammable vapor surrounding the site.

Around midday, an emergency response team brought in a secondary truck to pump out the remaining fuel. Witnesses report that the mechanical equipment, a generator or a friction spark from someone trying to extract the fuel finally ignited the heavily concentrated vapor cloud.

The tanker sat in the sun for over five hours. The intense midday heat rapidly accelerated the evaporation of the spilled petrol, filling the immediate air with fuel fumes and leaving the entire market area acting like a ticking time bomb waiting for a single spark.

In other words, they never learn and in the near future exact the same will occur again

[mr_feelgood]

That's what they get for calling it petrol instead of gas

[Mr.NoCredit]

Living a life of poverty makes people do things they wouldn’t do otherwise.

[scallywag27]

That dude came 1st in the wheelbarrow race.