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By Humphrey Malalo and Thomas Mukoya. NAIROBI (Reuters) -A gas truck exploded in Kenya's capital Nairobi, sending a huge fireball into the night sky and causing a blaze that killed at least three ...
The blaze started when a truck carrying gas blew up in Nairobi’s Embakasi district at about 11:30 p.m. local time, “igniting a huge ball of fire that spread widely,” government spokesperson ...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A vehicle loaded with gas exploded and set off an inferno that burned homes and warehouses in Kenya's capital, killing at least three people and injuring more than 270 ...
An explosion at a gas station burned down 25 homes and 16 shops. 11 October 2020 Iran: Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province: 5 9 Gas explosion. 12 October 2020 Nigeria: Oriade: 9 Unknown A tanker fell over and exploded along the Ilesa-Akure highway. 21 October 2020 Pakistan: Karachi: 5+ 27 Explosion at an apartment building. 4 November 2020 India
Embakasi. Embakasi, also known as Eastlando by its local youth residents, is a neighbourhood in the city of Nairobi. It is approximately 18 kilometres (11 mi), southeast of the central business district. Embakasi is considered part of Nairobi's Eastlands area, lying to the south-east of Nairobi County. The Embakasi proper covers other estates ...
On 7 October 2017, an offloading petrol tanker located at the state-owned Ghana Oil Company (GOIL) caught fire resulting in a large-scale explosion at the site of a liquefied natural gas station located at Atomic Junction in Madina, Accra, Ghana. [1] The explosion was not isolated to the tanker at the station, with the fire promptly radiating ...
Inferno. The fire began on 28 January 2009, a Wednesday afternoon, when the Woolworths Building which housed Nakumatt Downtown Nairobi caught fire at 3:00 PM. The blaze was still being fought twenty-four hours later. A power transformer had earlier blown and there were reports that gas cylinders on sale at the supermarket and chemicals at a ...
2011 Nairobi pipeline fire. The 2011 Nairobi pipeline fire was caused by an explosion secondary to a fuel spill in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on 12 September 2011. [1] Approximately 100 people were killed in the fire and at least 116 others were hospitalized with varying degrees of burns. [2] The incident was not the first such pipeline ...