Posted on 09/18/2015 5:30:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin
"Our situation here in Maridi is not good," he said, pointing out that most of the injured people are women and children.
He added that other badly burned bodies have also been found around the wreckage of the tanker.
On Thursday, Information Minister of Western Equatoria State Charles Kisagna said over 100 people were killed and about 50 others injured in South Sudan when an oil tanker swerved and exploded.
The minister noted that "those people may not survive because we do not have the facilities to treat the highly burnt people."
The oil tanker was traveling from the South Sudanese capital Juba to Yambio in Western Equatoria but it broke down near Maridi, where people had flocked around it to scoop up the spilled fuel when it exploded.
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Since crude doesn’t explode like that, refined, what? Gasoline, kerosene?
Note to self...
I’m guessing gasoline.
Impoverished people looking to steal a little gas to sell, and dying for it.
Like something out of Mad Max.
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