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[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. Many villagers came to the scene and tried to scoop up the spilled petrol. Within minutes, a fire started and an explosion followed. [7]
The death toll from a fuel tanker explosion in northern Nigeria has risen to at least 153 people and injured 100, police told CNN Thursday. ... a village in Jigawa state, came after the vehicle ...
A man sits in front of a mass grave for victims of an explosion that followed the crash of a fuel tanker truck in Majia, Jigawa State, Nigeria, Oct. 16, 2024. / Credit: ALAMIN MOHAMMED/REUTERS.
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.
Explosion of a propane tank inside a restaurant. [236] 23 July 2024 Mexico: Tequila, Jalisco: 6 2 Explosion inside a tequila factory owned by Jose Cuervo. [237] 1 August 2024 Russia: Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast: 10 15 A gas explosion caused an apartment block to collapse. [238] 21 August 2024 India: Anakapalli district, Andhra Pradesh: 18 37
The Tesla Cybertruck explosion and fire at the entrance of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas ... gas tanks and camping fuel were connected to a detonation system controlled by the driver in the Tesla ...
BLEVE–fireball, 2008 Toronto propane explosion The following is a list of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) accidents. It shows whether the accident occurred during dangerous goods transportation or at a fixed facility, the accident origin (e.g., storage, process reactor, rail tank car, tank truck), the material involved, its amount, the number of fatalities, and whether a ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -A gas tank explosion at a restaurant in eastern China's Jiangsu province killed one and wounded another on Monday, officials said, triggering concern over gas safety after a ...