坦桑尼亞墜毀的油罐車爆炸，造成57人死亡

坦桑尼亞墜毀的油罐車爆炸，造成57人死亡

A fuel tanker has exploded in Tanzania, killing dozens as flames ripped through crowds that had gathered to siphon petrol from it.

坦桑尼亞一輛油罐車發(fā)生爆炸，數十人死亡，大火吞噬了聚集在那里吸汽油的人群。

State broadcaster TBC Taifa said 57 people were killed and 65 injured.

國家廣播電臺tbc taifa報道，57人死亡，65人受傷。

Video clips from the accident scene circulating on social media showed the charred remains of dozens of young men.

在社會媒體上流傳的事故現場的視頻片段顯示，數十名年輕人被燒焦。

Footage from before the explosion showed a large crowd collecting liquid from puddles in yellow jerry cans after the vehicle crashed.

爆炸前的錄像顯示，汽車撞毀后，一大群人從裝著黃色杰瑞罐的水坑里收集液體。

"The situation is really bad. Many people died, here even those who were not stealing fuel because this is a busy place," Daniel Ngogo, an eye witness, told Reuters.

“情況真的很糟糕。許多人死了，甚至那些不偷燃料僅僅是看熱鬧的人也死了。”目擊者丹尼爾·恩戈戈告訴路透社。

"The fire was huge and it was challenging to rescue victims. I have seen about 65 to 70 people being rescued because the fire was fast spreading across the accident area."

“大火非常大，營救遇難者非常困難。我已經看到大約65到70人獲救，大火在事故地區(qū)迅速蔓延。”

The explosion occurred in Morogoro, a settlement around 200 km west of the capital Dar es Salaam.

爆炸發(fā)生在首都達累斯薩拉姆以西約200公里的莫羅戈羅。

"We have been saddened by reports of an accident involving a fuel truck in Morogoro, which caught fire and burnt several people," government spokesman Hassan Abbasi said on Twitter.

政府發(fā)言人哈桑·阿巴斯在推特上表示：“我們對莫羅戈羅的一輛燃料車事故的報道感到悲傷，這起事故導致數人起火并被燒傷。”