China News Service, Beijing, December 19 Conakry News: A large fuel warehouse incident occurred in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, on the 18th local time, killing at least 13 people and injuring 178 people.
According to the British Reuters news agency and the Turkish Anadolu news agency, in the early morning of the 18th, a fire and violent ** broke out at a large oil depot in the Conakrykalum district, and some nearby infrastructure was damaged. According to the report, the depot supplies most of Guinea's fuel.
According to the African News Agency (APA), Guinea's Transitional ** Minister of Health, Umar Dioué Ba, reported on the 18th that provisional data as of that day showed that 13 people were killed and 178 injured in the oil depot ** incident, of which 89 injured were discharged from the hospital after receiving **. The fire in the area where the oil depot is located has been brought under control and firefighters are working to extinguish it completely.
According to Al Jazeera, Guinea's transitional ** issued a statement on the 18th saying that it announced the closure of all schools and gas stations in Conakry, and that public and private sector workers in the capital, except for the defense and security sectors and the medical industry, remained at home. The cause of the fire and ** has not yet been determined.