Recovering the bodies in Kenya
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Recovering the bodies in Kenya.
At least 75 charred bodies have been recovered in Nairobi after at least 100 people were burnt to death after a petrol fire broke out in a densely populated neighborhood.
Authorities say it is difficult to establish the exact number of dead among the charred remains.
Residents say petrol spilled from a fuel depot into a sewage dyke ignited, causing an inferno.
Kenyan officials visited the wounded at the hospital. Police say the fire was started when someone through a cigarette butt into the dyke.
Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga visted the victims.
SOUNDBITE: Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, saying: (English):
"This is a terrible, terrible, terrible accident, the site of dead bodies lying there at Mukuru is something that is shocking, it is shocking how this happened and of course you see people are completely unprepared and unaware."
Scores of casualties are being taken to hospitals around Nairobi -- large number with serious burns, according to hospital officials.
Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters.
Recovering the bodies in Kenya.
At least 75 charred bodies have been recovered in Nairobi after at least 100 people were burnt to death after a petrol fire broke out in a densely populated neighborhood.
Authorities say it is difficult to establish the exact number of dead among the charred remains.
Residents say petrol spilled from a fuel depot into a sewage dyke ignited, causing an inferno.
Kenyan officials visited the wounded at the hospital. Police say the fire was started when someone through a cigarette butt into the dyke.
Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga visted the victims.
SOUNDBITE: Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, saying: (English):
"This is a terrible, terrible, terrible accident, the site of dead bodies lying there at Mukuru is something that is shocking, it is shocking how this happened and of course you see people are completely unprepared and unaware."
Scores of casualties are being taken to hospitals around Nairobi -- large number with serious burns, according to hospital officials.
Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters.