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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search ADVERTISEMENT Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Photos Sitemap DR.Congo tanker fire kills 200: Red Cross AFP - Sunday, July 4 Send IM Story Print BUKAVU, DR Congo (AFP) - – A fuel truck exploded and set fire to a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 221 people and injuring almost an equal number, the Red Cross said on Saturday. Flames engulfed dozens of earth and straw constructed homes after villagers, many of them children, crowded around the tanker which overturned late on Friday. Helicopters provided by the United Nations mission in the country evacuated injured villagers to hospital, officials said. Desire Kama from the Congolese Red Cross said according to a provisional estimate at 1100 GMT, there were 221 deaths -- of whom 61 were children and 36 women -- and 214 were injured. A UN mission source told AFP on condition of anonymity that five Pakistani troops were among the dead, but this was denied by MONUSCO's spokesman Madnodje Mounoubai, who said no UN soldiers were among the victims. A military source in MONUSCO's command said he had no reports of any victims from the peacekeeping mission and said verification was going on with units present in the zone. Earlier a MONUSCO source gave a toll of "223 dead and 110 injured." "What is certain is that the toll will get higher. It seems that what happened was truly horrible," the source said on condition of anonymity, adding that the search was still going on "for more charred bodies." "A tanker truck coming from Tanzania overturned in the village of Sange. There was a crush (of people) and a petrol leak, there was an explosion of fuel oil which spread through the village," regional government spokesman Vincent Kabanga told AFP. The village is located around 70 kilometres (40 miles) south of the Sud-Kivu county town of Bukavu, close to the border with Burundi. Dozens of homes in Sange were caught in the blaze after the accident, which a police officer based in Bukavu said had been caused by the truck's "excessive speed." The officer, who asked not to be named, added that many of those who surrounded the vehicle before it exploded were children. He said the locals were trying to gather the oil from the tanker, when the explosion occurred, adding that Sange was now "in total mourning." A UN officer who arrived at the site on Saturday morning said: "The bodies are charred. It's horrible, there are still flames above the truck." MONUSCO made available three helicopters to evacuate villages and alerted hospitals at Uvira and Bukavu, a source in the mission told AFP. MONUSCO -- officially known as the United Nations' Organisation for Stabilisation in Democratic Republic of Congo -- is the world's largest and most expensive peacekeeping operation with an annual budget of 1.35 billion dollars. Most of its troops are deployed in the country's volatile east. The mission, earlier known by its French acronym MONUC, has been present in DR Congo since the end of 1999. Explosions caused by fuel leaks from tankers after accidents or pipelines that have been punctured by thieves often claim hundreds of lives as locals rush to scoop up fuel. In October 1998, over 1,000 people died at Jesse, in Nigeria's southeastern state of Delta, when a pipeline exploded as people tried to steal oil. Similar accidents regularly claim dozens of lives. In Nigeria in 2000 and 2006 three accidents alone killed nearly 600 people. 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