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At least 50 dead, 100 burned in Congo tanker truck fire

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AP Kinshasa (Congo)
Last Updated : Oct 07 2018 | 5:00 AM IST

At least 50 people were killed and more than 100 were badly burned when a tanker truck in Congo collided with another truck and, as villagers rushed to collect the leaking fuel, burst into flames, witnesses and officials said.

Faced with one of the country's deadliest traffic accidents, President Joseph Kabila ordered three days of national mourning "in this particularly painful moment for the Congolese people."
"See under what conditions they are transported," the activist group LUCHA, which in English is known as Fight for Change, said of the photo in a Twitter post. "You can guess under what conditions they will be 'treated.'

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First Published: Oct 07 2018 | 5:00 AM IST

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