KINSHASA, CONGO—At least 50 people were killed on Saturday and more than 100 had second-degree burns when a tanker truck in Congo collided with a bus and, as villagers rushed to collect the leaking fuel, caught fire, witnesses and officials said. “We deplore the deaths,” the interim governor of Kongo-Central province, Atu Matubuana, told The Associated Press. At least 50 people are dead, 100 injured after a tanker truck collided with a bus in the village of Mbuba, Congo on Saturday. ( Dreamstime / TNS )The accident occurred in the village of Mbuba, not far from Kisantu city and about 200 kilometres southwest of the capital, Kinshasa. In 2010, more than 200 people were killed when a tanker truck overturned and burned in Congo’s South Kivu province.

Source: thestar October 06, 2018 15:33 UTC