El reporte viene de Al-jazeera:
At least 220 people are reported to have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a lorry loaded with oil exploded, setting fire to a village in the east of the country.
Marcellin Cisamvo, the governor of Kivu province, where the accident took place late on Friday, said children were among those killed.
"Some people were killed trying to steal the fuel, but most of the deaths were people who were indoors watching the [World Cup] match," Cisamvo said on Saturday.
Vincent Kabanga, a spokesperson for the South Kivu regional government, said the tanker, which was coming from Tanzania, overturned in the village of Sange.
"There was a crush [of people] and a petrol leak, [then] there was an explosion of fuel oil which spread throughout the village," he said.
Katrina Manson, a journalist with the Reuters news agency in the DRC, told Al Jazeera that once the fuel started leaking "it ran absolutely everywhere, once it caught fire, the trap was already set".
Dozens of homes, mostly constructed with earth and straw, were engulfed in the blaze.
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