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Liberian fuel tanker blast kills at least 40

People watch from a distance as flames rip through a crowd that had gathered after a furl tanker blast. [Courtesy]

More than 40 people were feared dead when a tanker truck exploded after crashing in central Liberia, the country's chief medical officer told local media Wednesday.

The tanker carrying gasoline crashed and tipped into a ditch along a road in Totota, about 130 kilometers from the capital, Monrovia.

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