PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Greater than 15 individuals in western Haiti had been killed after a fuel tank truck exploded on Saturday, Haiti Prime Minister Garry Conille stated in a put up on social media.
One other 40 individuals had been left with critical burns from the incident close to Miragoane within the division of Nippes, he stated. He famous the figures had been nonetheless preliminary, and stated the federal government was planning evacuations by helicopter.
“The federal government stands in solidarity with all of the victims and their households,” Conille stated.
The same gasoline truck explosion in 2021 within the metropolis of Cap-Haitien killed no less than 60 individuals.
In latest months, violent gangs have taken over a lot of the capital and expanded into close by areas, fueling a humanitarian disaster with mass displacements, sexual violence, little one recruitment and widespread starvation.
Haiti earlier this month expanded its state of emergency to cowl the nation’s full territory.
