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More than 100 people are reported to have died after an oil spill from a crashed lorry caught fire in central Kenya as locals were trying to scoop up free fuel, police said.
The lorry crashed near the town of Molo, spilling oil that later burst into flames as hundreds of locals were crowded around trying to help themselves to the goods.
"We counted 91 bodies at the site and there were 20 others that had been taken to the local mortuary," police provincial spokesman Hassan Noor Hassan told the Reuters news agency.
Another 82 people were also critically injured, a local Red Cross official said.
"The people went to scoop up the oil, then something lit the fire, maybe someone dropped a cigarette," Titus Mung'ou, a Kenya Red Cross spokesman, said on Saturday.
Speaking from the scene, Hassan Noor Hassan, a provincial police commissioner in the Rift Valley said that he counted more than 50 charred bodies.
Local residents said there was also a suspicion someone angered at being blocked from the spill by police may have started the fire on purpose.
Children missing
Hundreds of people were still milling around the site after the blaze.
A woman said she was searching for her two missing children.
She said: "My two sons ran home, picked some jerry cans and ran to get some petrol.
"I tried to stop them but they did not listen, they told me everyone is going there for the free fuel."
The disaster followed the deaths of at least 25 people in Nairobi when a supermarket caught fire earlier this week.
Local newspapers have criticized the government for poor safety regulation.
After the supermarket blaze, the Daily Nation said Nairobi's three million inhabitants are served by just one fire station situated close to a traffic-choked business district.
PHOTO CAPTION
Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki (C) and Police Commissioner Hussein Ali walk past the burnt-down Nakumatt supermarket in downtown Nairobi, January 30, 2009.
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