Matadi, DR Congo, Sept 15 (AFP\/APP): At least seven people were killed and 16 others badly burned when a tanker truck exploded in a village in western Democratic Republic of Congo, a provincial chief said Thursday.<\/p>\n
The blast occurred overnight in the village of Mbuba, about 120 kilometres (75 miles) west of the capital Kinshasa, Kongo Central provincial governor Guy Bandu tweeted.<\/p>\n
Mbuba lies on the busy RN1 highway linking Kinshasa to the ports of Matadi and Boma. <\/p>\n
More than 50 people were killed in a fuel-tanker blast in the same village in October 2018.<\/p>\n
“It is high time to take bold and drastic measures to strengthen transport regulations, especially for flammable products, to end to this cycle of accidents,” the provincial governor tweeted. <\/p>\n
Later in the day, Bandu gave the toll of seven dead and 16 badly burned in the latest blast, stressing that the figures were provisional. <\/p>\n
Mabiala Khonde, a civil-society representative in the area who passed the scene of the accident, said the truck had toppled over and was leaking fuel.<\/p>\n
“People were running to collect the fuel,” he told AFP by telephone from Matadi. “Several minutes after we heard an explosion”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Matadi, DR Congo, Sept 15 (AFP\/APP): At least seven people were killed and 16 others badly burned when a tanker truck exploded in a village in western Democratic Republic of Congo, a provincial chief said Thursday. The blast occurred overnight in the village of Mbuba, […]<\/p>\n
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