{"id":448045,"date":"2021-11-08T08:37:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T03:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=448045"},"modified":"2021-11-08T09:02:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T03:32:09","slug":"fuel-tanker-blast-in-sierra-leone-capital-kills-84-injures-over-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fuel-tanker-blast-in-sierra-leone-capital-kills-84-injures-over-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel tanker blast in Sierra Leone capital kills 84, injures over 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 84 people died on Friday after a fuel tanker exploded in a suburb of Sierra Leone&#8217;s capital, Freetown, CNN reported citing authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Lamrane Bah, director of communications for Sierra Leone&#8217;s National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA), told CNN that several people were also in critical condition following the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Authorities have transferred injured people to hospitals and collected the bodies, and the rescue effort at the scene has ended,&#8221; Bah said. Meanwhile, Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr said in a statement on Facebook that she was &#8220;saddened to hear about an explosion along Bai Bureh Road, Wellington, after a truck carrying fuel collided with another truck.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 84 people died on Friday after a fuel tanker exploded in a suburb of Sierra Leone&#8217;s capital, Freetown, CNN reported citing authorities. Mohamed Lamrane Bah, director of communications for Sierra Leone&#8217;s National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA), told CNN that several people were also in critical condition following the explosion. &#8220;Authorities have transferred injured people to hospitals and collected the bodies, and the rescue effort at the scene has ended,&#8221; Bah said. Meanwhile, Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr said in a statement on Facebook that she was &#8220;saddened to hear about an explosion along Bai Bureh Road, Wellington, after a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}