Nigeria tanker explosion kills 150
Oct. 21, 2024
Q: More than 150 people were killed in Nigeria last week after an overturned fuel tanker exploded, police said. Many of the inferno victims had rushed in to collect gasoline spilling from the tanker when it erupted. Where is the west African nation of Nigeria?
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Q: Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with 236 million people, and it is expected to grow to 392 million people in 2050. What percentage of Nigeria’s people live in poverty?
A. 20%
B. 30%
C. 40%
D. 50%
Q: Hundreds of Nigerians were killed in a 2006 explosion the country’s largest city as they collected fuel from fuel pipeline that had been punctured by thieves. What is largest and most populous city in Nigeria?
A. Abuja
B. Cape Town
C. Kinshasa
D. Lagos
Q: Poverty has driven many others to race into danger to collect fuel leaking from overturned tankers, including a 2021 explosion that killed 90 at least people in the poorest country in the Americas, What is that nation?
A. Cuba
B. Haiti
C. Nicaragua
D. Venezuela
Q: At least 230 people died in 2010 as they gathered to collect fuel from an overturned tanker in one of the poorest nations in the world, the Democratic Republic of Congo. The king of which country once owned the area of DR Congo as his private property?
A. Belgium
B. Italy
C. Prussia
D. United Kingdom
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