Mohamed Lamrane Bah, director of communications for Sierra Leone’s Nationwide Catastrophe Administration Company (NDMA), informed CNN that a number of individuals had been additionally in crucial situation following the explosion.
Authorities have transferred injured individuals to hospitals and picked up the our bodies, and the rescue effort on the scene has ended, Bah added.
Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr stated in an announcement on Fb that she was “saddened to listen to about an explosion alongside Bai Bureh Highway, Wellington, after a truck carrying gas collided with one other truck.”
“The video and photograph footage making rounds on social media are harrowing,” Aki-Sawyerr added.
“My sympathies exit to the households and family members of the victims of the explosion. Could the souls of the departed relaxation in good peace.”
