Three people have died in an attempted fuel theft incident on the Transnet fuel pipeline in Durban in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Transnet Pipelines, a Transnet division which is the custodian of the country’s 3,800km of high-pressure petroleum and gas pipeline network in the Durban to Gauteng corridor, received notification of a fire at Horseshoe Road in Clairwood, Durban.“The Transnet Pipelines national operations centre immediately shut down the pipeline and activated the emergency response plan.
“All the city’s emergency personnel were dispatched immediately to respond to the blaze,” said eThekwini municipality spokesperson Msawakhe Mayisela. “Due to the inherent dangers of tampering with high pressure petroleum pipelines, these incidents have resulted in fire and other asset damage, as well as environmental incidents, with high remediation costs.”
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