Another 20 people were being treated in hospital, including some in serious condition.
The blaze erupted at a warehouse for smuggled fuel in the southern Benin town of Seme Podji.
Nigeria is a major oil producer and fuel smuggling is common inside the country and along its borders, with illegal refineries, fuel dumps, and pipelines sometimes causing fires. Benin’s interior minister Alassane Seidou told reporters a serious fire had occurred in the town, but did not give details about exactly how it had happened.
For decades, Nigeria’s low-cost subsidised gasoline was transported illegally by road to neighbouring countries, primarily Benin, where it is resold on the black market by informal sellers.
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