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Footage from the location showed remains of a charred white car and a number of other gutted vehicles, including an autorickshaw and cycle rickshaws.

Multiple vehicles were "engulfed in flames and reduced to charred husks, with debris scattered across the site", according to a police statement.

In the east of the city, where rescue workers were clearing debris, AFP reporters saw multi-storey buildings with dozens of windows and balconies blown out, their facades charred.

He was shot and his charred body found in a burned-out car, a common method in gang killings known locally as a "barbecue".

In a subsequent one, taken on 6 November, these objects are seen charred and with smoke still rising from the area.