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richie
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01 Feb 2009, 10:27 am

Tanker Explosion Kills 100 in Kenya


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MOMBASA, Kenya — The death toll rose to more than 100 people after an overturned gasoline tanker exploded on a Kenyan highway as looters tried to scoop up the spilled fuel, officials said Sunday......

.....“Kenyans are obsessed with free things,” said Hassan Noor Hassan, the Rift Valley provincial commissioner. “You shouldn’t rush to your death for 10 liters of fuel.”...


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01 Feb 2009, 11:30 am

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Witnesses said that one vindictive looter whom officers tried to push away lit a match and threw it into a pool of gasoline.


i'm hoping he was one of the survivors with the worst case of burns... i didn't think one person could be capable of such destruction and death but i guess i was wrong.


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01 Feb 2009, 1:43 pm

sadly, this happens here and there over the world. A similar case in Nigeria claimed twice as many...



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01 Feb 2009, 3:25 pm

I just read about this. Apparently one of the hundred or so collecting petrol in a tin can decided to have a smoke at the same time! I kid you not. :roll:


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04 Feb 2009, 10:20 am

TallyMan wrote:
I just read about this. Apparently one of the hundred or so collecting petrol in a tin can decided to have a smoke at the same time! I kid you not. :roll:


I think the Darwin Award should apply here.

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