Amateur videos circulating on social media show a huge fireball exploding under a bridge. The tanker was probably too high to pass this place.
The explosion of a gas tanker in Berlin killed 15 people and injured around 40 others Buchsburgabout forty kilometers east of Johannesburgin South Africa, the emergency services announced on Saturday (December 24).
In the early morning, the truck got stuck under a bridge near a hospital and apartment buildings. “We got a call around 7:50 a.m. The firefighters left to put out the beginning of the fire. Unfortunately, the truck then exploded,” he said William NTladiSpokesman for the emergency services in this area.
Amateur videos circulating on social media show a huge fireball exploding under the bridge. The tanker was probably too high to pass this place. It was filled with 60,000 liters of LPG gas, used in particular for ovens and stoves, and came from the south-east of the country, the spokesman added, adding that its injured driver was taken to hospital.
Of the 40 injured, half are in serious condition, 15 others are severely affected but in stable condition, six firefighters were slightly injured, the spokesman said.
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