At least ten people were killed and 50 others got injured in a fuel truck explosion in Saudi Arabia s capital.
The explosion which severely damaged an industrial building in eastern Riyadh on Thursday was caused by the crash of a truck carrying flammable liquid, Saudi security and civil defense sources said.
A civil defense official at the scene, who declined to be named under briefing rules, said a fuel truck had crashed into a concrete flyover.
The industrial building, several storeys high, was almost entirely destroyed while several nearby buildings were damaged. Over a hundred emergency personnel were at the scene.
Al Arabiya television reported that the blast was caused by a fuel truck exploding at a petrol station.
