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The Boksburg explosion took place on 24 December 2022, when a fuel tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) exploded underneath a railway bridge in Boksburg, in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, [1] with a death toll of 41 people as of 18 January 2023. [2] Nearby infrastructure was damaged by the explosion.
The cylinders, often stolen, are first drained of gas, then cut open so that ore can be placed in them along with a steel ball which crushes the ore as the cylinder is rotated. [4] [5] The gas escaped within the densely populated Angelo shanty town in Boksburg. The victims were found within a radius of 100 meters (328 feet) from the leak. [6 ...
1990 Bangkok gas explosion; 2003 Etobicoke gas explosion; July 2016 Qamishli bombings; ... 2023 Boksburg gas leak; Boksburg explosion; D. Devil's Cigarette Lighter;
Rescuers are sifting through the rubble of a historic Texas hotel to try to find anyone who might still be trapped inside, one day after an apparent gas explosion rocked downtown Fort Worth.
A massive fire at a chemical plant in rural Texas on Wednesday sent a plume of black smoke into the sky as officials closed down a local highway and ordered residents to take shelter. Authorities ...
The explosion happened in Deer Park, a city about 18 miles east of Houston. According to reports from local news station ABC13 , the fire spread south under Spencer Highway into the borders of the ...
The Ecatepec de Morelos explosion was caused by a gas tank truck similar to this one, owned by Mexican company Sonigas. On 7 May 2013, at about 5:15 am local time (12:15 GMT), a gas tank truck exploded in a BLEVE on Federal Highway 85 "México–Pachuca" in Ecatepec de Morelos , a municipality in the State of Mexico about 8.7 mi (14.0 km) north ...
As of Tuesday morning, the fire caused by an exploding pipeline in a Houston suburb continued to burn itself out, according to officials.