France will provide medical equipment to take care of, in particular, 250 seriously injured people, after the explosions that ravaged a military camp and countless neighboring homes in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, on Wednesday, the French Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday. .
Read also: Accidental explosions in a military camp in Equatorial Guinea: 30 dead, 600 injured
"Faced with the emergency situation that Equatorial Guinea is going through following the Bata tragedy, France is responding,"
said the spokesperson for the Quai d'Orsay.
Paris will charter
"in the coming days a flight containing a mobile health post allowing the care of 250 seriously wounded and emergency medical and pediatric trunks to treat a thousand wounded and sick"
, she said. indicated.
Ten Civil Security deminers will also be dispatched to the site as well as equipment to fight the Covid, tents and kitchen kits for the victims.
At least 105 people were killed and 615 injured on Sunday in the accidental explosions of arms and ammunition depots at a military camp in Bata, which also literally razed several living quarters in the economic capital.
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who has ruled this small central African state with an iron fist for 42 years, relying in particular on the army, blamed the officials of the Nkoa Ntoma camp in Bata for having stored explosives so close to living quarters.
As of Sunday evening, he announced an investigation to determine the responsibilities, affirming that the disaster was caused by a poorly controlled burnout fire by a farmer near the stocks of explosives and ammunition.
The NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) estimated Wednesday that the explosions have claimed "many more" victims than the provisional official toll and called for an international investigation into their origin.