At least 20 dead, 600 injured after four explosions at Equatorial Guinea military camp

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At least 20 people have been killed and hundreds injured after four accidental explosions ripped through a military camp in Equatorial Guinea and obliterated neighbouring residential areas.

Footage broadcast by the TVGE channel showed buildings burned and flattened in a wide radius around the Nkoa Ntoma camp in the economic capital Bata, with a thick plume of black smoke rising into the sky.

Children and adults were seen being pulled from the rubble. There were chaotic scenes at the hospital in Bata, with the wounded lying on the floor awaiting treatment.President Teodoro Obiang Nguema said the accident had occurred after local farmers allowed a fire in the area to burn out of control, setting alight explosives that had been badly stored by soldiers at the military camp.

"These caught fire due to stubble-burning by farmers in their fields which ultimately made these depots explode in succession."The"high calibre" explosives set off by the fire caused"shockwaves" that razed many houses to the ground, the ministry added. Today was a very sad day for our nation 🇬🇶. Please pray for those who losted their lives, injured or missing under the rubble after the massive explosions in one of the barracks in the main city of Bata.

 

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What a terrible disaster

So, you are 'reporting on/watching' now what many of us have known for quite some time, and you still profess to be 'news'

Nobody screws it up like Africa.

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