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A fire set off by a gas explosion in Kenya kills at least 3 people and injures 280 others

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By TOM ODULA
Associated Press

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A truck loaded with liquid petroleum gas cylinders has exploded in a depot and set off a late-night inferno that burned homes and warehouses in Kenya’s capital. At least three people died and 280 were injured. Two dozen people were in critical condition. A government spokesman said Friday that a lot of people were home when the fire reached their houses in a Nairobi neighborhood late Thursday. The spokesman said the injured were rushed to several hospitals to be treated. Firefighters were searching the burned area later in the morning while a regulatory body said the gas depot didn’t have permits to operate in the area.

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