Kampala: A fuel truck ran out of control and exploded into flames near the Ugandan capital on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, a local official told AFP. The disaster occurred on a highway in the town of Kigogwa, about 25 kilometres (15 miles) north of Kampala.

At least 11 people were killed Tuesday after a fuel truck exploded next to a highway in Uganda, police said. The truck overturned after an accident and later exploded in a town just outside Kampala, the capital, police spokesman Patrick Onyango said. A cloud of dark smoke rose from the scene.

Ten bodies were recovered from the scene of a fuel tanker explosion in Uganda's capital Kampala on Tuesday, a Reuters witness said.Police said the tanker had overturned around 1500 local time (1200 GMT) and that "several people may have lost their lives,