Gas Tanker Explosion Kills More Than 40 People, Dozens Badly Burned in Liberia
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More than 40 people have been killed and dozens badly burned when a petrol tanker exploded in central Liberia, the country's chief medical officer said Thursday.
Witnesses said people clambered onto the lorry to try collect petrol leaking from its tank after it crashed on Tuesday and tipped into a ditch along a road in Totota, about 130 kilometers from the capital Monrovia.
Local Aaron Massaquoi told AFP that "some of them had irons hitting the tanker for it to burst for them to get gas."
"People were all around the truck and the driver of the truck told them that they could take the gas that was spilling," Massaquoi said. "He told them not to climb on top of the tanker and that they should stop hitting the tanker.... but some people were even using screwdrivers to put holes on the tank."
The grisly task of establishing the death toll has been made more difficult because the victims were so badly burned, said Liberia's chief medical officer Francis Kateh.
He told AFP that his teams were "going door-to-door to establish the number of missing people."
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Witnesses said people clambered onto the lorry to try collect petrol leaking from its tank after it crashed on Tuesday and tipped into a ditch along a road in Totota, about 130 kilometers from the capital Monrovia.
Local Aaron Massaquoi told AFP that "some of them had irons hitting the tanker for it to burst for them to get gas."
"People were all around the truck and the driver of the truck told them that they could take the gas that was spilling," Massaquoi said. "He told them not to climb on top of the tanker and that they should stop hitting the tanker.... but some people were even using screwdrivers to put holes on the tank."
The grisly task of establishing the death toll has been made more difficult because the victims were so badly burned, said Liberia's chief medical officer Francis Kateh.
He told AFP that his teams were "going door-to-door to establish the number of missing people."
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#Liberia #gas #explosion #deaths #VOAAfrica
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