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Man sits atop a petrol
tanker as they remain stranded in a flooded section of a road while driving
from the Ugandan border into South Sudan at Nimule August 27, 2013. At least 85 people were
killed and 50 injured in a fuel truck explosion Wednesday in South Sudan, the
Associated Press reported.
The
explosion occurred in the country’s rural Western Equatoria state.
Buzzfeed News report continues:
According
to local officials, the blast occurred when someone lit a cigarette while
residents were siphoning gas from a leaking tanker, Presidential spokesman
Ateny Wek Ateny said Thursday.
Hospitals
were overwhelmed with the number of injured people, according to Ateny.
“We
don’t have medical equipment and these people may not survive because we do not
have the facilities to treat the highly burnt people,” Charles Kisagna, the
minister of information in Equatoria told Reuters.
Ateny said that blast was
“an accident” and not related to the country’s conflict between rebels and the
government, Reuters reported.
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