The worst oil tanker fires around the world

Dozens of people were killed and hundreds injured in central Pakistan early yesterday when a fire erupted after crowds rushed to collect fuel from an overturned oil tanker. Here are the most serious such incidents around the world over the past decade. In many of the most deadly of these, people were trying to recover spilt fuel and were caught in the subsequent fire:

November 17, 2016, Mozambique

At least 93 are killed and dozens wounded when an oil tanker carrying petrol explodes in the west of the country. Hundreds of people were trying to siphon off the fuel at the time.

May 8, 2016, Afghanistan

At least 73 are killed after two buses collided with an oil tanker, sparking a massive fire on a road in the east of the country. Most victims die in the fire.

September 16, 2015, South Sudan

At least 203 are killed and 150 injured as people try to recover fuel from an oil tanker following a road accident at Maridi, about 300 kilometres west of the capital Juba.

January 11, 2015, Pakistan

At least 62 people, including women and children, are killed in a fire after a coach collides with an oil tanker travelling on the wrong side of the road, on the outskirts of Karachi.

July 12, 2012, Nigeria

At least 104 people are killed and some 50 wounded as they tried to recover fuel from a petrol tanker following an accident in River State. Most were killed in the subsequent fire.

July 2, 2010, DR Congo

Petrol tanker blast at Sange, in the east of the country, kills 292. Some victims were trying to recover the fuel after a road accident; others were watching the World Cup football tournament in a nearby hall.

October 9, 2009, Nigeria

Between 70 and 80 are killed in southeast Anambra State. A petrol tanker exploded, the flames engulfing several other vehicles.

March 26, 2007, Nigeria

At least 93 are killed in northern Kaduna State as people try to recover fuel from an oil tanker following an accident.