The explosion and the fire after a car accident in which a tanker with fuel was involved on November 5 in its capital Sierra Leone As a result, 144 people lost their lives, according to a new official report of the victims published yesterday, Saturday, by the Ministry of Health.
An earlier official report put the death toll at 131.
In hospitals 57 victims are being treated, with 11 of them to be in critical condition, according to the ministry.
The tragedy unfolded when tanker collided with another heavy vehicle at a gas station in an industrial area of the capital Freetown, before it exploded and a fire broke out.
According to eyewitnesses, most of the victims were street vendors and motorcyclists trying to collect fuel leaking from the tanker.
Sierra Leone, once a British colony of 7.5 million people, is one of the poorest countries in the world, despite the fact that its subsoil is particularly rich in diamonds.
Its economy, plagued by the gangrene of corruption, is still struggling to recover from the devastating civil war (1991-2002) that killed 120,000 people, the Ebola epidemic and the new coronavirus pandemic.
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