About 40 people have died following the explosion of a gas tanker in north-central Liberia. This was according to the West African country’s chief medical officer, Francis Kateh, on Wednesday.
It was said that the fuel truck crashed late Tuesday evening, in Totota, Lower Bong County, and not long after, it exploded, killing and wounding many who had gathered at the scene.
A lot of people are still in hospital, treating their serious burns, but it is likely that the death toll could rise.
Substandard road safety and weak infrastructure have made Sub-Saharan Africa, the world’s deadliest region for auto crashes, with the fatality rate being three times higher than the European average fatality rate, according to a United Nations report.
