Kenya’s government declared a “week of mourning” after two fatal fires claimed the lives of more than 115 people within one week of each other.

More than 100 are pronounced dead when a petrol tanker exploded near the town of Molo Saturday. This followed the Wednesday supermarket fire in Nairobi that killed two-dozen people.

"Several bodies were charred beyond recognition," Titus Mung'ou, spokesman for the Kenya Red Cross, told ABC News. "There have been 98 cases of missing persons registered with the Red Cross in Molo."

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga points to an impoverished community.

"Poverty is pushing our people into doing desperate things just to get through one more day," he said.

Kenya’s First Lady Lucy Kibaki blames Internal Security minister Prof George Saitoti for the Molo oil deaths.

Speaking after visiting victims at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, she criticized Ministy leaders for their “negligence and insensitivity.”

“It is not the first or the second time this is happening. Even before the explosion the District Officers and chiefs had enough time to warn the people that is was dangerous to siphon the oil,” she said.

Although a cause for the Molo fire has not been determined yet, it is rumored to be the result of local frustrations with the police who blocked hundreds of looters from retrieving the free fuel that spilled out of an overturned fuel tanker.

However, early reports point to a cigarette as the culprit that also injured at least 200 people, the Telegraph reports.