WATCH: Five injured in Braamfontein in ANOTHER gas EXPLOSION

Five people were injured in Braamfontein on Tuesday afternoon following another gas explosion.

WATCH: FIVE INJURED IN BRAAMFONTEIN IN ANOTHER GAS EXPLOSION

According to reports officials said that Egoli Gas employees were carrying out maintenance work on a pipeline on Bertha and De Korte streets when an explosion occurred.

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EGOLI GAS EMPLOYEES WERE CARRYING OUT MAINTENANCE

The explosion set the company’s truck alight and a portion of a nearby building.

“At this moment we can confirm that five people have been injured and taken to various medical facilities around the city. We have just done damping down and we’ll do an investigation of what has caused the fire.”

Joburg EMS spokesperson, Nana Radebe

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Gas explosion at cnr De Korte and Bertha Street in Braamfontein Johannesburg. pic.twitter.com/nT7GTtM0HZ

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THIS IS THE THIRD EXPLOSION IN JOHANNESBURG

This is the third explosion in Johannesburg in the last two months:

• On 20 July 2023, one person was killed in an explosion in Braam Fischerville, Soweto. The explosion at a private house resulted from dynamite connected to a vehicle battery.
• On 19 July 2023, one person died and 48 were injured in a major explosion in Johannesburg CBD. The main road was split wide open from the force of the explosion, with several vehicles blown onto their side.

The City of Joburg has announced last month that the cause of the deadly explosion in the CBD was methane gas.

City Manager Floyd Brink said they have already spent R4 million in experts’ services to probe the cause of the Joburg CBD explosion and estimated to spent over R100 million on repairs.

In the interest of transparency, he said it is important to report to residents of Johannesburg that the City has so far spent around R4 million in this project on professional experts’ services, cording off the site, technology used and the provision of temporary relief services in a form of Water tankers and temporary ablution services.

“A lot of lessons were learned following this unfortunate incident. In order to avoid future recurrence, the tunnel design will be upgraded based on current international codes for tunnels to reduce the risk and severity of explosions,”

he explained.

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