Over 200 killed in Ghana gas station explosion

June 05, 2015 09:52

Over 200 people were killed in an explosion at a gas station in Ghana`s capital Accra, even as torrential rains lashed the West African nation, the interior ministry said.

The Goil Filling Station at Nkrumah Circle in Accra caught fire after explosion on Wednesday (June 3) night during torrential rains.

Most of the dead bodies has been deposited at the 37 military hospital where 35 survivors are undergoing treatment, Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.

It is still not clear what triggered the fire at the gas station.

Eyewitnesses said that the blast was a result of petrol spillage on the surface of the flooding water, which sparked fire from a nearby trading centre.

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