MOLO, Kenya, Feb 1 (Reuters) - The death toll from an oil spill blaze in central Kenya has risen to 111, making it one of the east African nation's worst disasters of recent times, police said on Sunday.

"We counted 91 bodies at the site and there were 20 others that had been taken to the local mortuary," Rift Valley police provincial commissioner Hassan Noor Hassan told Reuters. A truck crashed near the town of Molo on Saturday, spilling oil that burst into flames as hundreds of locals crowded round in search of free fuel. (Reporting by Wangui Kanina, Writing by Andrew Cawthorne)

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