More than 90 people were killed in a collision between a tanker truck and a truck in Sierra Leone, West Africa.
The Vice President of the West African country, Mohamed Juledh Jalloh, spoke on Saturday at the scene of the accident in the capital Freetown of 92 dead and 88 seriously injured.
Previously, the Red Cross had given the number of bodies recovered after the accident on Friday evening as 80.
The accident happened on Friday evening in a busy street in the capital, Freetown.
According to eyewitnesses, the accident started with a vehicle that caught fire in a gas station after the accident.
After the collision with containers, many people rushed to the tanker to siphon off gasoline.
Shortly afterwards the truck exploded.
Some surrounding shops and cars caught fire, it said.
Several charred bodies were found in cars and on the surrounding streets.
Hundreds of people gathered at the scene of the accident on Saturday, many of them looking for missing relatives.
Employees of a hospital near the scene of the accident confirmed to the German press agency on Saturday that rescue workers had brought 80 bodies in during the night.
The local TV station AYV spoke of 400 victims on Saturday morning.
The rescue operation continues.
According to a nurse in the responsible hospital, many women, men and children were admitted with "serious injuries".
"I am deeply dismayed by the tragic fires and the terrible loss of life," President Julius Maada Bio wrote on Twitter.
"My deepest condolences go to the families who have lost loved ones and to those who have been mutilated as a result."
President Julius Maada Bio, who attended the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26) on Friday, is expected in Freetown shortly, a government spokesman said.
Due to the "tragic accident" Bio canceled a planned trip to a meeting of the West African economic community Ecowas in Ghana.
He pledged support from the government to those affected.