Uganda firefighters clean a road with water at the scene of a fatal road accident that led to a fuel tanker catching fire that killed and injured many people in the outskirts of the capital Kampala June 30, 2013. A fuel tanker explosion in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, has killed 29 people and left at least 20 others injured, police said. REUTERS/James Akena
KAMPALA (Reuters) - At least 30 people were killed and scores more injured when a fuel tanker exploded on a highway in Uganda, a major transit route for fuel heading from Kenya to land-locked east African states, a police spokesman said on Sunday.
The truck exploded late on Saturday a few miles north of the capital Kampala after it had stopped when it was involved in an accident with another vehicle and people nearby crowded round trying take fuel from the tanker, the spokesman said.
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