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LAHORE -- Petrol spilling from a fuel tanker burst into flames in Pakistan’s central Punjab Province yesterday, burning at least 57 people to death as they tried to scoop it up. About 60 others were injured in the blaze at a rural bus station near the central Punjab town of Jhang. As the petrol started to spill, local residents ran up with cans to collect the liquid, a witness said. "More than 100 people were busy filling their cans when suddenly the fire broke out and all of them were engulfed by flames," he said. Some reporters returning from the site said 86 people were killed, but Jhang district ad ministration officials put the death toll at 57.