At least 50 people have died in a fuel tanker explosion in northern Haiti's Cap-Haitien city
Dozens of bodies lay on the street hours after the explosion as a small crowd stood around them, officials and witnesses said.
The local deputy mayor said the explosion happened on Tuesday morning, setting "about 20" houses in the area ablaze. He said he expects the number of deaths to keep rising because people who died in their homes have not yet been counted.
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