Latest news from BBC Africa on the deadly blast in Dar es Salaam - read here.
People uses the word 'earthquake' to describe how they felt today. I thought of gunshots or thunder. Irregular though. Others that they thought that the al-Qaeda had returned. People saw the wall crack and a big screen crack in the book shop in Shoppers' Plaza (where I live close by).
ITV is reporting the facts, but no one is asking why there is an ammunition dump close to a residential area in Dar es Salaam. No one is asking how this could go so wrong? And possibly worse as the ammunition is spread all around now as depicted on TV.
The BBC article also cites people for saying that the city is in chaos. That might be true in terms of the central part, but it is not visible i Upanga, Ada, Regent, Mikocheni and Mbezi - relatively far off the area where the explosions took place.
Serious though, two people are reported dead, and about 300 seriously injured.
But not one word about this on IPP Media in English (nor on This Day) but instead a highlight from today on President Kikwete's inauguration of the construction of the 240-km Arusha-Namanga-Arthi River highway at Lengijavu in Arumeru District, Arusha Region.
Interesting media approach - is all I can say.
