Fuel truck explosion kills at least 230 people in Congo

Residents walk through the charred streets of Sange, the village hit by the fireball from the tanker explosion Photograph: Marc Hofer/AP Photograph: Marc Hofer/guardian.co.uk 10-year-old Olivier Jerrard is treated for burns suffered when the fireball from the tanker explosion hit Sange Photograph: Marc Hofer/AP Photograph: Marc Hofer/guardian.co.uk A soldier stands guard to deter looters at the site of the oil tanker explosion Photograph: Marc Hofer/AP Photograph: Marc Hofer/guardian.co.uk The bodies of those killed in the fireball are laid out at a makeshift outdoor morgue in Sange Photograph: EPA Photograph: guardian.co.uk A survivor of the oil tanker explosion is treated for burns at a hospital in Sange Photograph: Marc Hofer/AP Photograph: Marc Hofer/guardian.co.uk A local resident walks past the burned-out wreckage of the fuel truck in Sange Photograph: Marc Hofer/AP Photograph: Marc Hofer/guardian.co.uk A boy inspects the aftermath of the oil tanker explosion in Sange Photograph: Marc Hofer/AP Photograph: Marc Hofer/guardian.co.uk A local resident peers into the interior of a restuarant that was gutted by the fireball from the tanker explosion Photograph: Marc Hofer/AP Photograph: Marc Hofer/guardian.co.uk Local residents watch as the victims of the fuel tanker explosion are buried in a mass grave Photograph: Marc Hofer/AP Photograph: Marc Hofer/guardian.co.uk A UN engineer uses a bulldozer to help bury the victims of the fuel tanker explosion Photograph: Marc Hofer/AP Photograph: Marc Hofer/guardian.co.uk