Death toll in Boksburg blast now at 15 - Health Minister Joe Phaahla
Fuel tanker explosion in Boksburg leaves several dead, 'multiple' people severely injuredEmer-G-Med paramedics, together with several other emergency services, are at the scene in Railway Street.
Both security guards were seriously injured. They were robbed of their firearms, with the gunmen fleeing on foot. Police spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe said the Germiston Bomb Disposal Unit destroyed an unstable hand grenade on the scene."A multidisciplinary team has been dispatched to monitor the area to effect possible arrests. An enquiry has also been registered to determine the origin of the explosive devices.
According to City of Cape Town Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson Jermaine Carelse, the first officer on the scene confirmed that two generators were alight at the rear of the receiving bay at the shopping complex. Eighteen people were injured in a road crash involving a truck, a bakkie, and a car on the N4 highway near Schoemanskloof in Mpumalanga.Mpumalanga Department of Community Safety spokesperson Moeti Mmusi said the injured drivers and passengers were rushed to a hospital near Mbombela.This is the second serious accident reported on the N4 in less than a week.
Crews from Epping, Brooklyn and Milnerton were on the scene in 14th Street, Kensington, to help. Carelse said the police would investigate the cause of the fire.30-tonne excavator worth R1.5m vanishes from construction site in Eastern Cape On Sunday, police found a human skull and a knife, believed to have been used in the murder, in the pit toilet.
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