‘Our house was shaking’: Chad ammunition depot fire triggers explosions
Al Jazeera
President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno says there have been deaths and injuries but does not specify the number.
An unknown number of people have been killed and injured after a fire triggered a series of blasts at a military ammunition depot in Chad’s capital N’Djamena.
The fire began in N’Djamena’s Goudji district late on Tuesday and there had been “huge explosions” Foreign Affairs Minister Koulamallah Abderaman wrote in a statement on Facebook.
President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno said people had been killed and wounded in the blaze, without giving precise figures.
“Peace to the souls of the victims, sincere condolences to the grieving families and a speedy recovery to the wounded,” Deby wrote on Facebook, promising to open an investigation into the fire.
A resident of an area near the depot said he saw three injured people on the street, and two of them were rushed to hospital on motorbikes.
