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The jack-in-the-box effect, [1] also known as a turret toss, is a specific effect of a catastrophic kill on a tank or other turreted armored vehicle in which an ammunition explosion causes the tank's turret to be violently blown off the chassis and into the air.
The Juba tanker explosion was a tank truck explosion that occurred on 17 September 2015 in a suburb of Juba, the capital of South Sudan. It killed an estimated 176 people, most casualties coming from the crowd that had converged on the scene of the leaking tanker. The Red Cross dispatched aid to the suburb of Maridi after the incident.
On November 17, 2022, at 7:45 p.m. local time, an explosion in the city of Sulaymaniyah in the east of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, destroyed three homes.Authorities attributed the explosion to a buildup of gas inside the house after the LPG liquid gas tank leaked which caused a fire in a residential area, killing and injuring dozens and destroying three houses and several vehicles.
A propane tank explosion ignited by a cigarette lighter left a Minnesota father and his five children in critical condition. Father, 5 children hurt in propane tank explosion while getting toys ...
But Kane said the explosion caused significant damage that includes leaving a crater about 50 feet in diameter. A parking lot is buckled because of an underground fuel tank explosion at a ...
The explosion resulted in a moratorium on liquefied natural gas storage facilities in New York state. [1] The construction of two under-construction tanks in Rossville was subsequently abandoned. [4] [18] The Public Service Electric and Gas Company attempted to store natural gas in the two tanks, but dropped these plans in 1984 due to ...
The involved tanker came from Kano and had driven around 110 kilometers on its way to Yobe State on 15 October. [5] [6] While traveling on an expressway near the town of Majiya in Jigawa State, the tanker overturned while attempting to avoid crashing into a truck, causing petrol to spill onto the road.
The incident occurred outside a business on Main Street between University Drive and Fourth Street around 8:45 p.m. when a propane tank caught fire and exploded, Rochester police said in a ...