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Back in 1998, a petroleum tanker overturned and burst into flames at Sidindi market, about 50km from Kisumu, as residents scrambled to loot the spilt fuel.
Thirty-nine people died and scores were hospitalised with serious burns. Several years later in 2009, some 110 people were burnt to death after a fuel tanker burst into flames two hours after it overturned at Sachangwan trading centre along the Nakuru-Eldoret highway.
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