The blasts at a military barracks in Bata killed 98 people, the health ministry said, citing the vice president.

衛生部援引副總統的話說，巴塔一個軍營的爆炸造成98人死亡。

Around 600 people have been previously reported as injured and President Teodoro Obiang and Gamer says almost all the cities, homes and buildings have been damaged.

此前已有約600人受傷的報道，總統特奧多羅-奧比昂和Gamer表示，幾乎所有的城市、房屋和建築都已受損。

It has a population of over 250,000 people mhm.

它的人口超過25萬，嗯。

He has attributed the accident to negligence related to the handling of dynamite.

他把事故歸咎於與處理炸藥有關的疏忽。

Images published by local media showed bodies wrapped in sheets lining the side of the road and Children being pulled from under piles of broken concrete and twisted metal.

當地媒體公佈的圖片顯示，路邊擺滿了用床單包裹的屍體，兒童被從一堆破碎的混凝土和扭曲的金屬下拉出來。

The explosions come as the former Spanish colony suffers a double economic shock caused by the global health crisis and a drop in the price of crude oil, which accounts for around three quarters of state revenues.

爆炸發生時，這個前西班牙殖民地正遭受全球衛生危機和佔國家收入約四分之三的原油價格下跌帶來的雙重經濟衝擊。

The majority of Equatorial Guinea's 1.4 million people live in poverty, and the government has called for international support for the search and rescue effort and to rebuild.

赤道幾內亞140萬人口中的大多數人生活在貧困中，政府呼籲國際社會支持搜救工作和重建。