Sierre Leone president addresses residents at the scene of a deadly oil tanker explosion in Freetown on November 7, 2021. At least 90 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in Freetown on Saturday when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision. Authorities in Sierra Leone have not released an official death toll but Sinneh Kamara, the manager of the central state morgue in Freetown, said it had received 91 bodies following the blast. A further 100 casualties were taken hospitals and clinics across the capital, deputy health minister Amara Jambai told Reuters news agency. “We’ve got so many casualties, burnt corpses,” said Brima Bureh Sesay, head of the National Disaster Management Agency, in a video from the scene shared online. “It’s a terrible, terrible accident.” Images online showed several badly burned victims lying on the streets as fire blazed through shops and houses nearby. “My profound sympathies […]