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Video: Fire kills fuel scavengers
24 Mar 2009 04:03:00 GMT
Source: Reuters
Mar 23 - Scores more have been injured when fire erupted as they tried to salvage fuel leaking from an oil refinery pipeline in Sierra Leone.

At least four people have been killed in the fire which broke out after police arrived at the scene to break up a crowd of hundreds trying to get a share of the leaking fuel.

Paul Chapman reports.




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