Equatorial Guinea PM praises China medical aid

YAOUNDE, Cameroon－Equatorial Guinea on Monday praised Chinese medics for saving scores of people injured in explosions that rocked a military camp at the weekend.

The death toll from the blasts in the city of Bata has risen to 98, with hundreds wounded.

The blasts on Sunday involved ammunition stocks and explosives at the camp in the country's economic hub. They devastated buildings at the compound and houses in surrounding residential areas.