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Huge blasts hit Equatorial Guinea, kill 17

At least 17 people have been killed and more than 400 wounded on Sunday in a range of powerful explosions at a military base in Equatorial Guinea’s largest city of Bata, according to the country’s health ministry.

DPA WORLD
Published March 07,2021
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At least 17 people have been killed and hundreds injured in powerful explosions in the West African country of Equatorial Guinea.

A total of 420 injured people were being treated in three hospitals after the explosions on Sunday in a military complex in the city of Bata, the country's health authority announced on Twitter.

Pictures and videos circulated on Twitter showed a high column of smoke and fleeing people.

The cause of the explosions was not known at first.