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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.
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.
On 14 December 2021, a fuel tank truck exploded in the Samari neighborhood of Cap-Haïtien, [1] the capital city of the Haitian department of Nord.At least 90 people were killed and more than 120 were injured; many people were injured as a result of rushing towards the tanker, likely to collect some of its cargo, before the explosion occurred.
The death toll from a fuel tanker explosion in northern Nigeria has risen to at least 153, with another 100 people injured, police told CNN Thursday. The blast, which happened late evening local ...
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 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.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -A fuel truck explosion on a road in Haiti's southern peninsula on Saturday killed 24 people and left half of the 40 injured survivors with third-degree burns, the ...
The first tank was at 50%, containing 25,000 cubic meters (883,000 cubic feet) of fuel while the second was full. [2] [3] The injured were hospitalized with five people in critical condition and 20 remained hospitalized. During the weekend, firefighters sprayed water on the remaining 10 fuel tanks to keep them cool and prevent the spread of the ...