Week of mourning for the victims of the blast fuel tankers, which occurred on Saturday, January 31, announced in Kenya. According to recent data, while 115 people were killed and about 200 were burned, the Associated Press.
According to authorities, the number of victims could rise. The explosion occurred after the crowd rushed to the fallen in an accident fuel tankers in order to gain fuel. According to one version, petrol caught fire from cigarette butts outstanding. The other - the fuel burned deliberately, after the police arrived the crowd tried to marginalize.
Cases of deaths from fire when you try to have a free fuel has repeatedly occurred in different countries in Africa. The reason that drives people to neglect the danger and risk their lives, is extreme poverty.
In mid-January 2009, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki declared the famine that gripped many parts of the country, "national calamity" and appealed to the international community with a request for assistance in the amount of 400 million dollars.
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