DHAKA: An oil tanker has exploded on a road in Kenya, killing at least 30 people.

The Kenya Red Cross tweeted that the tanker, heading to Uganda, had appeared to lose control before crashing into other vehicles in Naivasha, north-west of the capital Nairobi.

Eyewitness Moses Nandalwe told the BBC a huge fireball quickly engulfed other vehicles on the busy road.

He feared that many people who had gathered at the scene of the crash were also caught in the inferno.

Mwachi Pius Mwachi, deputy director of Kenya's National Disaster Management Unit, said the tanker had been traveling downhill when it went out of control.

Correspondents say the accident has happened at a time when doctors are on strike, severely limiting services in government hospitals.

BDST: 1048 HRS, DEC 11, 2016
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