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Death Toll From Explosions in Equatorial Guinea Rises to 98

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Authorities in Equatorial Guinea say the death toll from a series of explosions at a military barracks has risen by dozens to at least 98 killed after more bodies were recovered.
The blasts on Sunday in the Mondong Nkuantoma neighbourhood of the coastal city of Bata also wounded at least 615 people, the Equatorial Guinean government said.
The government said that 316 of the injured have been discharged and 299 remain in care in various hospitals in the city.
More than 60 people were also rescued from under the rubble by the civil protection corps and fire service, the government said.
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema said the government will hold an emergency meeting to look into how victims can quickly receive aid from Equatorial Guinea before international aid arrives.
Investigations into the blast have begun, he said.
The president initially said the explosion was due to the “negligent handling of dynamite” in the military barracks and the impact damaged almost all the homes and buildings in Bata.
The vice president, who is also the son of the head of state and is in charge of defence and security, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, said Tuesday that investigations so far showed the fire may have begun when a farmer set fire to his plot to prepare it for food production and a breeze spread the flames to the nearby barracks where the high-calibre ammunition was stored.
Images shown on state TV showed plumes of smoke rising above the explosion site as crowds fled.
Equatorial Guinea, an oil-rich West African country of 1.3 million people located south of Cameroon, was a colony of Spain until it gained its independence in 1968.
Bata has roughly 175,000 inhabitants.
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