An oil tanker that overturned and caught fire in a Pakistan highway burned to death 148 people and injured 200 others on Sunday.
The fatalities were trying to collect oil leaking from the overturned tanker near Ahmedpur East when a fire suddenly broke out, according to a witness.
Haroonur Rasheed, a former police official and an expert on emergency and rescue operations, said the spilled fuel might have been ignited by a lighted cigarette or use of a cell phone, reports The Express Tribune.
Ambulances transported the injured people to nearby hospitals.
Some 75 motorcycles, three cars, one rickshaw and one cycle were also destroyed in the fire.
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