The first batch of foreign healthcare specialists expected to help Sierra Leone treat victims of last week’s deadly tanker explosion have arrived in the country.

The group of 10 Senegalese medics airlifted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) is part of the international Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) requested by the country, which is struggling to attend to the cases of people with severe burns from the fire disaster.

The explosion occurred in an industrial estate in the eastern part of the capital Freetown, when a truck collided with a loaded fuel tanker. 

Over 90 people were declared dead a day after the incident, while 90 others sustained severe injuries.

Veronic Njie reports.