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Congo: burn survivors recover from tanker blast (AP)

July 4th, 2010

An inhabitant of the town of Sange, eastern Congo, walks past the burned out wreckage of a tanker truck Saturday, July 3, 2010, that was involved in a accident Friday night. The tanker truck hauling fuel on a rural eastern Congo highway overturned, gushing oil and exploding in a massive fireball that killed scores of bystanders, including many who had been watching the World Cup in flimsy roadside shacks, officials and witnesses said Saturday. (AP Photo/Marc Hofer)AP - Moaning and badly burned survivors from a massive tanker blast that killed at least 230 people recovered in a crumbling eastern Congo hospital Sunday, two days after the wrecked fuel truck exploded on a rural highway.


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