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.
“These caught fire due to stubble-burning by farmers in their fields which ultimately made these depots explode in succession.”The “high caliber” explosives set off by the fire caused “shockwaves” which razed many houses to the ground, the ministry added.The disaster comes at an already difficult time for Equatorial Guinea, “due to the economic crisis caused by falling petrol prices, and the COVID-19 pandemic”, he said.
Spain, the former colonial power, urged its citizens via its Malabo embassy to stay at home following the blasts.
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