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Mother, child, others killed in Onitsha tanker explosion

By TVC News Nigeria
18 October 2019   |   1:13 pm
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the death of a mother and her child in the tanker accident in Onitsha, Anambra State.

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