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Two soldiers on trial for deadly E Guinea military camp blast

By AFP
June 14, 2021

Bata, Equatorial Guinea: Two soldiers will face charges of homicide and negligence over a massive explosion at a military camp in Equatorial Guinea that killed more than 100 people in March, the prosecutor’s office said. Stocks of explosives in the camp accidentally detonated on March 7 obliterating neighbouring residential areas, killing 107 people and injuring 615 others on the outskirts of economic capital Bata.