A fuel tanker truck explosion killed 18 people in Nigeria's southeastern Enugu state on Saturday, the national road safety agency said, a week after another incident left about a 100 residents dead in the north of the country.

Eighteen people were killed in a truck accident in south-eastern Nigeria, authorities said on Sunday, a week after a petrol tanker explosion left at least 98 dead.

Nigerian officials say at least 18 people have died and 10 others were injured in the country's south after a gasoline tanker exploded.

Just two days after over 90 people were burnt to death in a tanker explosion that also left scores injured in Niger State, residents massed around another fallen truck in another community.The fresh incident occurred in Bida town on Monday.