73 killed in fuel truck explosion in Mozambique

At least 73 were killed and another 110 suffered severe burns when a truck carrying petrol blew up in Mozambique, the country's government has said.
"The incident occurred when citizens tried to take petrol from a truck" in the village of Caphiridzange in Tete province, near Malawi, the government said in a statement. The government added that 110 people were injured, some of them critically. Children were among the wounded, it said.
Mozambique is one of the world's poorest nations, according to the International Monetary Fund, and since its civil war ended in 1992 its population has suffered the consequences of a terrible economic crisis. The government recently increased the price of fuel, after the value of the local currency - named metical - sunk against the dollar.