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The Mozambican government has called an extraordinary meeting today to address the fuel tanker tragedy in Tete province which caused dozens of fatalities and left more than 100 injured yesterday.
According to a statement sent to Lusa by the Mozambican government, an extraordinary meeting was called for today “whose only agenda item is the analysis of the Caphiridzange incident”.
Yesterday the government also announced that it was sending a government team led by Carmelita Namashulua, Minister of State Administration and Public Administration, accompanied by the Minister of Transport and Communications, Carlos Mesquita, the Deputy Minister of Health, Mouzinho Saíde, and the Director of the National Institute of Disaster Management, Osvaldo Machatine, to the scene of the tragedy.
According to Radio Mozambique, citing the provincial government, at least 73 people were killed on Thursday and more than 100 injured in Caphiridzange in Moatize district when a fuel tanker exploded, for reasons not yet established.
According to a statement from the Council of Ministers, which reported 43 deaths before the public broadcaster upgraded the death toll, the cause was the truck heating up unduly before the fire, and the Radio Mozambique report indicated a lightning strike just as dozens of people were lining up for fuel.
Also according to the public radio’s report, the truck was diverted from its route by a long-distance driver from Malawi to Caphiridzange, where the tragedy occurred at 3:00 PM local time.
After a preliminary official assessment of 43 dead, the provincial authorities updated this number to the 73 cited by Radio Mozambique, while admitting that the death toll may yet rise with the possibility that victims of the disaster tried to run to a nearby river
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