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Thousands flee after Equatorial Guinea blast

Thousands flee after Equatorial Guinea blast

AARON ROSS  HOSPITALS have run out of morgue space and are piling bodies into refrigerated shipping containers. Radio and television stations are flooded with calls trying to locate the parents of unaccompanied children. Thousands have fled for the countryside. Three days after a series of explosions levelled much of Equatorial Guinea's largest city Bata, killing at least 105 people and injuring more than 600 others, its residents are still coming to grips with the full scale of the tragedy. Drone footage aired on state television showed block after block of public housing in the coastal city either completely destroyed or…
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Military barracks blast death toll rises to 98

Military barracks blast death toll rises to 98

The death toll from a series of explosions in a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea has risen to 98, the health ministry has revealed, after volunteers searched the rubble for bodies. At least 615 people were injured in the blasts on Sunday, which started with a fire at the Nkoantoma Military Base in the coastal city of Bata, according to the defence ministry. Citing Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the health ministry put the death toll at 98, more than triple an earlier estimate of 31 killed. Of the wounded, 299 remained hospitalised, the ministry wrote on Twitter. President…
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