BREAKING: Dozens killed in Mozambique truck blast
At least 73 people were killed and scores more injured when an oil tank truck burst into flames in a village in western Mozambique on Thursday, the nation's public radio announced.
"The death toll of the incident is now 73," state-run Radio Mocambique announced, citing authorities in Tete.
"The incident occurred when citizens tried to take petrol from a truck" in the village of Caphiridzange in Tete province, near Malawi, the government said in a statement.
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The government added that 110 people were injured, some of them critically. Children were among the wounded, it said.
The precise circumstances of the explosion remained unclear.
This is a developing story.