{"id":527,"date":"2010-07-03T16:29:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T16:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=527"},"modified":"2010-07-03T16:29:34","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T16:29:34","slug":"hundreds-die-in-dr-congo-fuel-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/07\/03\/527\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds die in DR Congo fuel blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"congo\" src=\"images\/stories\/akhbar\/congo.jpg\" width=\"258\" height=\"180\" \/>At least 220 people are thought to have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a lorry loaded with oil exploded, setting fire to a village in the east of the country, UN and local officials say.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marcellin Cisamvo, the governor of Kivu province, where the accident took place late on Friday, said children were among those killed.<br \/>&#8220;Some people were killed trying to steal the fuel, but most of the deaths were people who were indoors watching the [World Cup] match,&#8221; Cisamvo said on Saturday.<br \/>Vincent Kabanga, a spokesperson for the South-Kivu regional government, said the tanker, which was coming from Tanzania, overturned in the village of Sange.<br \/>&#8220;There was a crush [of people] and a petrol leak, [then] there was an explosion of fuel oil which spread throughout the village,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deadly leak<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Katrina Manson, a journalist with the Reuters news agency in the DRC, told Al Jazeera that once the fuel started leaking &#8220;it ran absolutely everywhere, once it caught fire, the trap was already set&#8221;.<br \/>Dozens of homes, mostly constructed with earth and straw, were engulfed in the blaze.<br \/>Sange is located around 100km from the town of Bukavu, near the border with Burundi.<br \/>A police officer based in Bukavu said the accident had been caused by the lorry&#8217;s &#8220;excessive speed&#8221;.<br \/>Leonard Zigade, an official with the Red Cross, said that the organisation has people on the spot and the search for victims is continuing.<br \/>The UN has made three helicopters available to evacuate residents and has alerted hospitals at Bukavu and Uvira, a source said. <br \/>Madnodge Mounoubai, a spokesperson for the UN stabilisation mission in the DRC, told Al Jazeera that about 35 people have been air-lifted to Bukavu for treatment.<br \/>Survivors &#8220;in the village need water, food and maybe psychological assistance&#8221;, he said.<br \/>The UN had initially said that five of its peacekeepers were killed in the blaze, but later said that no peacekeepers died.<br \/>Manson, the Reuters journalist, said that other medical staff have also been sent to the scene from Uvira.<br \/>&#8220;Congo is no stranger to transport-related accidents, whether on road, rail or on rivers, but this is one of the worst,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Al Jazeera and agencies<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 220 people are thought to have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a lorry loaded with oil exploded, setting fire to a village in the east of the country, UN and local officials say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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