Children lose parents as thousands flee after Equatorial Guinea blast


  • World
  • Wednesday, 10 Mar 2021

Drone footage shows damaged buildings after explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, in this screengrab taken from a video from March 9, 2021. ASONGA TV/via REUTERS TV

(Reuters) - Callers seeking the parents of lost children have been regularly dialling in to radio and television programmes since a series of explosions levelled much of Equatorial Guinea's largest city and sent thousands fleeing for the countryside.

Three days on, residents of Bata are still coming to grips with the full scale of a tragedy that has killed at least 105 people and injured more than 600 others.

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