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Haiti PM visits ‘horrible scene’ of fuel truck blast; dying toll now put at 25 By Reuters
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Haiti PM visits ‘horrible scene’ of fuel truck blast; dying toll now put at 25 By Reuters

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By Tycoon Herald 3 Min Read Published September 15, 2024
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Haiti PM visits ‘horrible scene’ of fuel truck blast; dying toll now put at 25 By Reuters

By Harold Isaac and Steven Aristil

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -A gasoline truck exploded on a highway in Haiti’s southern peninsula on Saturday, killing a minimum of 25 folks, in line with native media, and leaving dozens of survivors with severe burns.

Haiti Prime Minister Garry Conille visited the location, close to the coastal metropolis of Miragoane within the division of Nippes, and mentioned a number of the most critically injured victims have been evacuated by helicopter to obtain medical care.

“This is a horrible scene, what I have just witnessed,” he mentioned in a press release. Earlier, he mentioned emergency groups have been working to “save the lives of the seriously injured,” and pledged authorities help for the victims and their households.

Media outlet Radio RFM mentioned 25 folks died within the incident that befell round 7 a.m. native time. Earlier, authorities in Nippes mentioned 16 our bodies have been fully charred and unrecognizable, and 40 folks had been taken to the native hospital with burns.

Photographs launched by the federal government present medical employees serving to a person whose legs and head have been swathed in white bandages, as he entered a humanitarian air service helicopter.

A witness to the incident mentioned the truck’s fuel tank had been punctured by one other car, and folks rushed to the location to gather gasoline.

“There were a lot of people. Those who were close to the truck got pulverized,” mentioned the person, who didn’t give his identify, in a video interview with native outlet Echo Haiti Media.

When requested how many individuals may need been killed within the blast, he mentioned it was troublesome to say.

“You can’t know, because there were a lot of people, bystanders and those collecting oil. There were a lot of people,” he mentioned.

Gasoline deliveries to the Miragoane space have slowed in current weeks as vans have been transported through ferry to keep away from gang-controlled highways surrounding the capital of Port-au-Prince.

The unfold of gangs within the capital and surrounding areas has fueled a humanitarian disaster with mass displacements, sexual violence, youngster recruitment and widespread starvation. A state of emergency is now in place nationwide.

Haiti’s civil safety company reported the identities of a 31-year-old man and two 23-year-old males who suffered burns over 89% of their our bodies, and have been being handled in a hospital in Les Cayes, in southern Haiti.

Two of them sustained second-degree burns, the company mentioned.

An identical incident in 2021 within the metropolis of Cap-Haitien killed a minimum of 60 folks, after folks have been additionally thought to have been trying to take gasoline from a tanker truck.

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