One week after an explosion at an arms depot and barracks complex killed at least 246 people in the capital, Brazzaville, more than 100 were buried in a mass funeral. Officials said that only 159 bodies could be identified in time for the ceremony. The explosion was caused by a fire in the barracks that set off a lethal rain of grenades, mortar rounds, shells and rockets. The arms depot had not been moved away from the neighborhood despite an earlier government promise to do so after a less deadly explosion in 2009.
Source: New York Times
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