At least 200 people died and dozens were injured when a tanker truck filled with oil exploded and set fire to a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The accident occurred late Friday in the village of Sange near the border with Burundi, civil administration officials in the South Kivu provincial capital Bukavu said. About 100 villagers survived the catastrophe, many with severe burn wounds.
“A tanker truck coming from Tanzania overturned in the village of Sange. There was a crush (of people) and a petrol leak, there was an explosion of fuel oil which spread through the village,” said regional government spokesman Vincent Kabanga.
Many of the survivors were people who had stayed in their homes in to follow the Ghana-Uruguay World Cup football match which was going on at the time of the accident.
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