Paramedics have confirmed that ten people were killed after a fuel tanker exploded in Boksburg on Saturday morning.
that “the destruction is far greater than anyone can currently envisage.”It is believed that the fuel tanker carrying liquefied petroleum caught fire after scraping the top of its roof while driving under a low-lying bridge on Railway Street, about 100 metres from Tambo Memorial Hospital.
Many of the injured were taken to the hospital’s casualty unit, but later patients had to be evacuated from the facility because of a structural collapse brought on by the explosion., the humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers has started assisting those affected. Imtiaz Sooliman, the founder of Gift of the Givers, noted that a number of victims had sustained multiple injuries and varying degrees of burns in addition to the fatalities. A low bridge was also destroyed, and the casualty unit at Tambo Memorial Hospital, as well as homes and railroad tracks nearby, were damaged.
His organisation offered to provide additional medical supplies to hospitals that had to evacuate patients because of hospital damage, as well as non-medical support for firefighters, medical personnel, staff, patients, and families. Sooliman stated that his organisation was purchasing burn dressing, antibiotics for sepsis, analgesia, anaesthetics, pain delivery pumps, cleaning agents, special nutritional feeds, nasogastric pumps, and related consumables to assist those in need., CEO Zenzo Ndabula of Tambo Memorial Hospital said that the explosion had damaged the emergency room and that patients had to be moved. In a statement, Ndabula said that some of the hospital staff were among the injured.
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