At least 84 killed in Sierra Leone fuel tanker explosion
CNN
At least 84 people died on Friday after a fuel tanker exploded in a suburb of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, according to authorities in the West African country.
Mohamed Lamrane Bah, director of communications for Sierra Leone's National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA), told CNN that several people were also in critical condition following the explosion.
Authorities have transferred injured people to hospitals and collected the bodies, and the rescue effort at the scene has ended, Bah added.
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