(23 Oct 2024)
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Outskirts of Kampala, Uganda – 22 October 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Close up of burnt fuel tanker
2. Close up of charcoal stove near the accident scene
3. Wide of crime scene investigators at the scene of the accident
4. Wide of responders preparing body bags
5. Various of responders collecting bodies
6. Various of responders carrying bodies to a waiting truck
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Moses Nanoka, District Police Commander, Kampala Metropolitan North:
"It was a single accident involving a fuel tanker which was moving on this Bombo Road. We have not yet ascertained whether the problem was with the vehicle or the driver. It got an accident in this spot and the fuel started oozing out from the tanker, it was unfortunate that our people went to start fetching the fuel. And fuel being highly inflammable it caught fire because there was one lady who was roasting maize there then there are homesteads like you see, shops, so with the amount of fuel which was flowing we cannot, at this time, know exactly the source of the fire.”
++DAY SHOTS++
8. Wide of fuel tanker on fire
9. Various of police, firefighters responding
10. Various of firefighters putting out the fire
++NIGHT SHOTS++
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Moses Nanoka, District Police Commander, Kampala Metropolitan North:
"Some bodies are so burnt that you cannot ascertain whether it is one body or two, so the team of forensics is on ground supported by our sister forces also that we are ascertaining, removing the bodies also as we tabulate them. So the data is going to come, we shall give you a proper report when we are done with the scene.”
12. Various of police loading bodies onto police truck
STORYLINE:
At least 11 people were killed on Tuesday after a fuel truck exploded next to a highway in Uganda, police said.
Two children were among the dead.
The truck overturned after an accident and later exploded in a town just outside Kampala, the capital, a police spokesperson said.
Footage showed workers retrieving the bodies of the victims, as well as investigators at the scene.
A video shared online by an onlooker appeared to also show people scooping up fuel from the truck before the blast.
AP video by Patrick Oen
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