Fuel tanker blast in Sierra Leone capital kills at least 91

FREETOWN, 07 November 2021, (TON): The central morgue and local authorities said “ninety-one people were killed in the capital of Sierra Leone on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision.”

The government has not yet confirmed the death toll, but the manager of the central state morgue in Freetown said it had received 91 bodies following the explosion.

Victims included people who had flocked to collect fuel leaking from the ruptured vehicle, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of the port city, said in a post on Facebook.

Brima Bureh Sesay, head of the National Disaster Management Agency said “we've got so many casualties, burnt corpses,”

Images shared widely online showed several badly burned victims lying on the streets as fire blazed through shops and houses nearby. Media sources was not able to immediately verify the images.

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