"Many had run over to collect fuel... Anything spilled was viewed as wasteful in the wreck that didn’t seem dangerous until it burst into flames."

From in "Fuel tanker [truck] explosion kills over 90 in Sierra Leone" (WaPo).

Similar tanker blasts have killed hundreds of people across African countries in recent years — usually involving victims trying to bottle the leaking fuel.

One witness said, "There are dead bodies all around... There are people screaming, people burning alive... The firefighters came, but there was nothing they could do by then... The blaze was so much. There was nothing they could do to contain the inferno.”

"The hunt for survivors of a devastating mudslide on the outskirts of Sierra Leone’s capital has continued, with 270 bodies recovered so far...."

And "thousands missing" — The Guardian reports.

Excitement in Sierra Leone.

A short woman gets married.