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At least 84 people died last night in

Freetown

, the capital of Sierra Leone, after

a fuel tanker exploding when it collided with another truck

, the emergency services confirmed today to Efe.

"As an institution responsible for disasters, we are currently on the ground, we have created an Incident Command Center to help coordinate incident management," said

Mohamed Lamrane Bah

, Communications Director for the Sierra Leone Disaster Management Agency. , noting that

the death toll could increase due to the critical situation of some injured

.

Bah indicated that the injured people were evacuated to various hospitals in the capital and that there are social workers and experts helping the victims.

According to the local media

The Sierra Leone Telegraph

, some residents near the place where the explosion took place - which destroyed houses and other vehicles - left their houses after the collision of the vehicles with buckets and drums to collect the spilled fuel.

It is a

common practice in some African countries that produces an increase in the number of victims if the truck ends up exploding

and that last July in Kenya caused the death of thirteen people who approached a crashed tanker to extract fuel of the vehicle and that it exploded later.

The Mayor of Freetown,

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr

, declared this morning on her Facebook account that she was "deeply" saddened after hearing the news and sent her condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims.

"The videos and photos that circulate on social networks are shocking," she

said, indicating that she could not be there in person, but that the police and the deputy mayor were at the scene supporting the National Agency for Disaster Management.

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