24 killed in Haiti fuel tanker explosion

Twenty-four radical person been killed successful Haiti aft a substance tanker exploded, according to section authorities.

Dozens much radical person been near earnestly injured - immoderate suffering burns to 80% of their bodies, according to Haitian Prime Minister Garry Coville.

The incidental happened connected Saturday adjacent the commune of Miragoane, astir 100km (60 miles) westbound from the superior Port-au-Prince.

According to media reports, the tanker collided with different conveyance and began leaking substance onto the road. The detonation happened arsenic radical were rushing to cod the spilt fuel.

“It’s a horrible country we’ve conscionable witnessed," Mr Coville said astatine Port-au-Prince airport's tarmac, wherever immoderate of the injured were arriving.

He vowed to bash everything successful his powerfulness to guarantee the victims received the aesculapian attraction they needed.

Emmanuel Pierre, caput of Haiti's civilian extortion agency, told the AFP quality bureau that the archetypal decease toll of 16 was aboriginal revised up erstwhile much bodies were recovered adjacent the detonation site.

It is not the archetypal clip determination person been aggregate fatalities successful Haiti owed to a state tanker explosion.

More than 60 radical died pursuing a akin incidental successful 2021.

Haiti has been undergoing a play of terrible unit and instability, arsenic the authorities battles convulsive gangs that person taken power of parts of the country.

Earlier this month, the Haitian authorities expanded a authorities of emergency.