The hospital director told the BBC that twenty -nine children were studying their school exams in the Central African Republic, they were killed after a nearby explosion caused a panic.
Abel Akai of Bangui Community Hospital said that the explosion, on the second day of the high school finals on Wednesday, occurred in an electric transformer.
“The noise of the explosion, along with smoke” caused an alert between nearly 6000 students sitting the baccalaureate at an exam center in the capital, Bangui, according to a local radio station, Nadik Luka.
President Faustin-Arada Tadira announced a period of national mourning.
He also ordered that more than 280 people who were injured in crushing will have a free hospital treatment.
The car continues to face the challenges of political instability and security challenges.
Government forces, backed by Russian mercenaries, are fighting armed groups that threaten the overthrow of the Tuwarara administration
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