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Scenes of devastation following an explosion in the Congo which killed over 150
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A man sits among the debris left by yesterday's explosion at the Mpila district of Brazzaville on March 5, 2012. Congo issued a plea for international help Monday as soldiers began recovering bodies from an area devastated by huge explosions at a munitions depot that left more than 150 dead and 1,000 injured. President Denis Sassou Nguesso announced a curfew in the capital Brazzaville and set up an exclusion zone around the devastated eastern district of Mpila, following an emergency cabinet meeting in the early hours of the morning. AFP PHOTO / PATRICK FORT (Photo credit should read PATRICK FORT/AFP/Getty Images)PATRICK FORT / AFP - Getty Images
Police and residents stand near the debris of the Lycee de la Revolution school near the military barracks in the Mpila district of Brazzaville on March 5, 2012. Congo issued a plea for international help Monday as soldiers began recovering bodies from an area devastated by huge explosions at a munitions depot that left more than 150 dead and 1,000 injured. President Denis Sassou Nguesso announced a curfew in the capital Brazzaville and set up an exclusion zone around the devastated eastern district of Mpila, following an emergency cabinet meeting in the early hours of the morning. AFP PHOTO / GUY GERVAIS KITINA (Photo credit should read GUY-GERVAIS KITINA/AFP/Getty Images)GUY-GERVAIS KITINA / AFP - Getty Images
A calcinated tree stands on March 5, 2012 in the middle of homes devastated on March 4 by huge explosions at a munitions depot that left more than 150 dead and 1,000 injured in the Mpila area Brazzaville. The government said an electrical short-circuit likely caused a fire which triggered a series of blasts so powerful they devastated the surrounding area and blew out windows in Kinshasa, the capital of the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo situated across the Congo river. AFP PHOTO / PATRICK FORT (Photo credit should read PATRICK FORT/AFP/Getty Images)PATRICK FORT / AFP - Getty Images
