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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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