Explosions in the Equatorial Guinean city of Bata on Sunday were caused by accident, and the latest casualty count showed at least 20 people were killed and 600 others injured, according to the country’s authorities.
Sunday afternoon, at the Nkoatama military camp in Bata, explosives warehouses caught fire following the fire at nearby farms, causing successive explosions, according to a statement from the presidency of Equatorial Guinea.
According to the country’s defense ministry, the provisional toll included 20 deaths and 600 injuries, while many buildings were destroyed.
Search and rescue operations are going on. Health authorities have called on people to donate blood and encouraged volunteer health workers to help.
Located on the mainland part of Equatorial Guinea, Bata is the most populous city in the country.
However, two separate attacks at police on Sunday in Pakistani capital Islamabad and its adjacent city Rawalpindi left at least two police personnel, including an officer, killed and two others injured, police and local media said.
Deputy Inspector General of Islamabad police Afzaal Kausar said in a statement that some unknown gunmen riding on a motorcycle opened fire with automatic weapons at a police party in the Sector G-13 area of the capital on Sunday night.
A sub-inspector of police and two constables sustained injuries in the attack, said the officer.
