One person has been detained and an investigation opened to determine the cause of an explosion that killed scores of people at an informal gold miners market in Burkina Faso, a judicial source said on Tuesday.
The blast happened on Monday in the rural commune of Gbomblora in the southwestern province of Poni and the judicial source said the toll on Tuesday stood at 63 dead and 40 injured.
"The cause has not yet been precisely determined. What you need to know is that the explosion took place in a market," said the source, who requested anonymity because he was not authorised to speak about the incident.
