Pakistan oil tanker explodes, killing 153

[Redondo]

 

DEADLY FIREBALL
At least 153 burned to death after tanker explodes

The tanker overturned after the driver lost control on a sharp bend on a road from Karachi to Lahore after the vehicle blew a tie. Drivers rushed to the site to collect the leaking fuel, which exploded after someone apparently lit a cigarette, Reuters reported, citing officials.

"People of the area and passersby had started gathering fuel when it exploded, burning everybody," provincial government spokesman Malik Muhammad Ahmed Khan told Reuters. 

An estimated 20 children were among the dead, he said.

 

Someone lit a cigarette with all that gas on the ground?

 

[Tank]

Oy vey.

[ten ocho recon scout]

What an idiot. 

Sad story all around. Chaotic pictire in my head...people rushing to get free gas, thinking thinking they scored, then one idiot...

[AngelsLakersFan]

Even Pakistani's can die in a freak, gasoline rush, accident...

[Jay]

They even had the kids out there scooping up the gasoline. Good call.

 

[ten ocho recon scout]

14 hours ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

Even Pakistani's can die in a freak, gasoline rush, accident...

Jitterbug

[AngelsLakersFan]

4 hours ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

Jitterbug

I feel dirty now. lol