At least 220 dead in oil explosion in Congo - KansasCity.com: "A tanker truck hauling fuel on a rural eastern Congo highway overturned Saturday, gushing oil that later exploded in a fireball and killed about 220 people.
Witnesses said dozens of people had descended on the truck to siphon fuel illegally from the wreckage with jerricans and plastic buckets, apparently unaware of the danger.
U.N. peacekeepers rushed to evacuate more than 200 injured from the scene by helicopter and ambulance. Red Cross teams carried the charred bodies away in body bags and buried them in two mass graves a few miles away."
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Gulf Oil Spill: Cap Placed Over Leak Collecting Only Fraction Of The Oil
Pelicans struggle to free themselves from oil, thick as tar, that gathers in hip-deep pools, while others stretch out useless wings, feathers dripping with crude. Dead birds and dolphins wash ashore, coated in the sludge. Seashells that once glinted pearly white under the hot June sun are stained crimson."
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