The death toll from accidental explosions at a military camp in Equatorial Guinea rose to 98 on Monday, state television said.
Numerous bodies and survivors had been pulled from the rubble after the four large blasts devastated a military camp and its surroundings in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, with the number of injured standing at 615.
Three children aged 3 and 4 years were pulled alive from the ruins of homes and taken to hospital, according to TVGE, a state television station under the Ministry of Information.
It showed images akin to a war zone, in which rescue workers and civilians struggled to remove bodies from smoking ruins.
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WNU editor: The government is blaming this catastrophe on the mishandling of dynamite.
