Guinea Oil Terminal Blast Kills at Least 13, Fire Largely Contained

Guinea Oil Terminal Blast Kills at Least 13, Fire Largely Contained
Fire burns after a blast at an oil terminal in Conakry, Guinea, on Dec. 18, 2023. Souleymane Camara/Reuters
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CONAKRY—An explosion at an oil terminal in Guinea’s capital Conakry killed at least 13 people and injured 178 on Monday, the government said, as firefighters worked through the afternoon to fully extinguish the blaze.

The blast at the West African nation’s main oil terminal rocked the Kaloum administrative district in downtown Conakry early in the morning, blowing out the windows of nearby homes and forcing hundreds to flee, according to a Reuters witness.