site , Mung ` ou said . Four policemen , who were trying to control the crowd , were believed to be among the victims , Mung ` ou said . Another 117 people were wounded in the blast , police said . The figures are expected to rise , officials said . The Red Cross sent more than 80 people to help with rescue efforts . Those who were seriously wounded were flown to a hospital in Nairobi . Meanwhile , the death toll from last week 's Nairobi supermarket fire rose to 27 on Sunday , the Red Cross said . Rescue workers found the latest victims as they searched through the rubble of the scorched structure in downtown Nairobi . The fire ignited Wednesday afternoon during a somewhat busy hour in the 24-hour Nakumatt supermarket . Police launched a criminal investigation to look into allegations that security guards locked people into the burning building . Employees of the supermarket refused to comment on the allegations . The fire angered Kenyans for what they perceived as a lack of disaster preparedness . Emergency numbers failed to work and water ran out during attempts to put out the fire
NAIROBI , Kenya -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- More than 100 people were killed and several dozen wounded when an overturned petrol tanker exploded in Kenya early Sunday , authorities said . The blast is the second multi-fatality incident in the east African country in four days . A supermarket fire in Nairobi on Wednesday killed at least 27 people , with another 57 still missing . The tanker explosion occurred near Molo , a small town in the Rift Valley Province -- about 130 kilometers -LRB- 80 miles -RRB- from the capital , a spokesman for the Kenyan police said . The tanker overturned along a highway spilling gallons of gas which hundreds of residents rushed to scoop up , said Titus Mung ` ou of the Kenyan Red Cross . `` People were lining up trying to get the fuel , '' he said . `` They were siphoning off petrol for over an hour . Some people had drilled holes in the tanker and were charging a fee for the assembled crowd . '' The vehicle exploded about an hour later , apparently after one of the residents lit a cigarette or started a fire at the crash