The senior officer who was hit by a stone died on the way to hospital, police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba said.

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William Edward Parker died when his car hit a stone wall off the B5306 in Distington on Monday.

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"Many of the dead were hit by flying debris of broken walls and stone slabs that were flung on to the streets due to the explosion, " witness Maung Win told the Associated Press.

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Newspapers in Nigeria recently gave prominence to a report from Port Harcourt that a vulture, hit by a stone thrown by a boy, turned into a baby as it hit the ground and then into an old man.

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Ms Stone's car then hit a tree by the side of the road.

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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said Twitter users were the first to alert others last summer after an earthquake hit Southern California.

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