98 Killed, More Than 100 Reportedly Injured in Sierra Leone Fuel Tanker Explosion: 'Horrendous Loss of Life'

Photo: Saidu BAH/AFP via Getty A fuel tanker explosion in Freetown, Sierra Leone, has resulted in devastation for the capital city. Brima Bureh Sesay, head of the National Disaster Management Agency, noted in a Facebookvideofrom the scene that there were “so many casualties, burnt corpses,” adding: “It’s not a very good sight at all. It’s a terrible, terrible accident. I have never seen this before.” Bah added that the rescue effort has ended as of Saturday.

98-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Is Keeping Her Promise to Tell Her Story — and She's Doing It on TikTok

After surviving the Holocaust as a young girl,Lily Ebertpromised herself that she would spend the rest of her life telling her story. These days, she’s finding her audience on TikTok.Ebert, who was 20 years old when she and her family arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp, decided to begin making videos to share on the platform during the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020, according toCBS News.Dov Forman, her 18-year-old great-grandson who helps run the account, told the outlet, “I said to my great-grandmother, ‘If they can go viral for dancing, why can’t we go viral for sharing these really important messages?

98-Year-Old New York Man Walks 6 Miles Every Day to Visit His Paralyzed Wife in the Hospital

A 98-year-old man has shown that both distance and hardship won’t get in the way of love. Luther Younger, of Rochester, New York, has been walking about six miles every day for the past two weeks to visit his paralyzed wife in the hospital. “I ain’t nothing without my wife,”Luther told Spectrum News.“It’s been a rough pull. It’s been tough.” According to the news outlet, Luther, a Korean War veteran, has been married to his wife, Waverlee, for 50 years.

99 Cent Only Stores to Close All 371 Locations Due to 'Inflationary Pressures'

99 Cents Only store in Bakersfield, Calif.Photo:Roger Hornback/Getty99 Cents Only is closing all 371 stores in Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas, the discount retailer announced on Thursday, April 3.The discount retailer is known for selling a wide variety of products, groceries and seasonal items. Executives cited changing economic conditions for the closures.“This was an extremely difficult decision and is not the outcome we expected or hoped to achieve,” interim CEO Michael Simoncic saidvia a press release.

99 People Remain Missing After Fla. Condo Collapse That 'Felt Like an Earthquake': 'It's Bad'

Barry Cohen, the former vice mayor of Surfside, Florida, was sleeping in his third-floor condo at Champlain Towers when he awoke to what he called “a bang that just kept on going” on Thursday morning. Cohen’s tale of survival comes amid a tragedy in Surfside in which a 12-story, 136-unit apartment complex partially collapsed around 1:30 a.m., Ray Jadallah, assistant fire chief of operations for Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, said at apress conference.