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Daring Dante’s Inferno: Spilt fuel fires don’t scare Africa

Fuel tanker tragedies in Africa take a heavy toll on life, but we are not in a hurry to learn from them.

A loaded fuel tanker overturns or runs into something, oil spills, people armed with buckets, sufurias, jerrycans and all manner of receptacles rush to loot the fuel, a small trigger, and boom! Charred bodies.

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