At least 62 people were killed and dozens injured in Haiti when a tanker truck carrying gas exploded in the country's second-largest city of Cap-Haïtien
The disaster unfolded when the tanker truck swerved to avoid a passing motorcycle, hit an electricity pole and overturned around midnight Monday, spilling gasoline, according to local officials. Residents, who have been suffering from fuel shortages in the country, gathered around the truck to collect gasoline in buckets when the truck exploded, engulfing many in the crowd in a fireball.
But residents, wielding hammers, punched holes in the tank and began to collect fuel. The gasoline flowed down into a nearby canal and was ignited by burning trash nearby, setting off the explosion, the organization said. “People were carbonized, swept up in the flames and the stampede to get the gasoline,” said Pierreli Catius, the coordinator of a local political party. “It’s a huge tragedy.”
“It’s with a broken heart that I am seeing the critical condition of some of our compatriots,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
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