The death toll from a fuel truck explosion in Haiti rose to 75, on Wednesday, as doctors scrambled to treat the wounded from an incident that officials say was made more deadly by residents approaching the vehicle in a desperate search for fuel.
Rescue workers recovered 61 bodies at the site of the accident, which took place late on Monday in Haiti’s second-largest city of Cap-Haitien, while a director of the city’s main hospital said a further 14 people had died while being treated for wounds.
Patients with burns on as much as 50 per cent of their bodies were on the hospital’s porch due to lack of space inside the facility.
But Monday night’s major blast charred the facades of several homes and shops nearby, and destroyed cars and motorcycles on the street.
