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(Reuters) -Ninety-one individuals have been killed and over 100 wounded within the capital of Sierra Leone on Friday when a gasoline tanker exploded following a collision, the central morgue and native authorities stated.
The federal government has not but confirmed the demise toll, however the supervisor of the central state morgue in Freetown stated it had acquired 91 our bodies following the explosion.
An extra 100 casualties have been admitted for therapy at hospitals and clinics throughout the capital, deputy well being minister Amara Jambai informed Reuters.
Victims included individuals who had flocked to gather gasoline leaking from the ruptured automobile, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of the port metropolis, stated initially in a publish on Fb (NASDAQ:) that was later edited to take away the reference.
“We have so many casualties, burnt corpses,” stated Brima Bureh Sesay, head of the Nationwide Catastrophe Administration Company, in a video from the scene shared on-line. “It is a horrible, horrible accident.”
Photographs shared extensively on-line confirmed a number of badly burned victims mendacity on the streets as fireplace blazed by means of retailers and homes close by. Reuters was not in a position instantly to confirm the pictures.
Accidents with tanker vehicles in Sub-Saharan Africa have beforehand killed scores of people that gathered on the web site to gather spilled gasoline and have been hit by secondary blasts.
In 2019, a tanker explosion in jap Tanzania killed 85 individuals, whereas round 50 individuals have been killed in the same catastrophe in Democratic Republic of Congo in 2018.
The mayor stated that the extent of the harm in Freetown was not but clear, including that police and her deputy have been on the scene to help catastrophe administration officers.
“My profound sympathies with households who’ve misplaced family members and those that have been maimed consequently,” President Julius Maada Bio tweeted.
“My Authorities will do every little thing to help affected households.”
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