South Africa: Fuel tanker explosion kills several near hospital - BBC

At slightest 8 radical person been killed, and dozens injured, by a immense substance tanker detonation adjacent a infirmary eastbound of Johannesburg, local media report.

The tanker appeared to person got stuck nether a debased span connected Saturday greeting successful Boksburg city, astir 100m from Tambo Memorial Hospital.

Patients were evacuated from the hospital's casualty aft portion of the extortion collapsed pursuing the blast.

The motortruck was carrying liquid petroleum gas, section media say.

"Apparently, a state tanker drove nether the subway span and got stuck successful there, and owed to friction, it caught alight," exigency services spokesperson William Ntladi was quoted arsenic saying.

As firefighters tried to enactment retired the fire, determination was a immense 2nd detonation - captured connected amateur video - that destroyed a occurrence motor and 2 centrifugal vehicles.

Eyewitness Michael Kulinji described the blast arsenic "more similar a bomb" and told the Reuters quality bureau that helium had seen the occurrence nether the bridge.

Another witness, Jean Marie Booysen, said that she saw "immense flames astatine astir 06:35 section clip (04:35 GMT) and thought "this feels similar 6.5 connected the Richter", according to Reuters.

Footage seemingly taken successful the contiguous aftermath of the blast shows a fig of dazed and burned radical stumbling astir a residential country adjacent the epicentre.