No fewer than 100 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the capital of Sierra-Leone on Friday night, when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, local authorities said.
The accident occurred in a busy street in the capital Freetown.
According to eyewitnesses, “many people rushed to the tanker to siphon off petrol after the collision with containers, shortly afterwards, the truck exploded.”
Some surrounding shops and cars caught fire, they said.
Staff at a hospital near the accident site confirmed to dpa on Saturday that rescue workers had brought in 80 bodies during the night.
The local television station AYV spoke of 400 victims on Saturday morning.
President Julius Maada Bio, who was attending the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow is expected in Freetown shortly, a government spokesperson said.
Due to the “tragic accident,” Bio had cancelled a planned trip to a meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in Ghana.
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