Twenty-nine children who took their school exams in the Central African Republic were killed in Ljutići after the nearby explosion caused by panic, the director of the hospital said to the BBC.
The explosion, the second day of the middle school finals on Wednesday, occurred at the electric transformer, said Abel Assaya from Bangui Community Hospital.
“An explosion noise, combined with smoke” caused an alarm among the almost 6,000 students sitting in the school in the city in the capital, Bangui, local Radio Station Ndeke Luka.
The President of Faustin-Archange Touader declared a period of national mourning.
He also ordered that more than 280 wounded in sympathy, he would receive free treatment in the hospital.
Students from five different schools in the capital went to Licae Barthelemi Boganna to sit on a disk exam.
The car continues to face political instability and security challenges.
Government forces, which supported Russian mercenaries, struggling with armed groups that are threatening to overthrow Toudera’s management
