LIMA, Jan 26 — The death toll in the explosion of a gas tanker in Lima has risen to 13 after the overnight deaths of five people hospitalised with severe burns, Peru’s Health Ministry said yesterday. The dead included several young children and a 40-year-old man from Venezuela, the ministry...
Forensic police inspect the wreckage of a gas tanker that exploded in Lima, on January 23, 2020. — AFP pic
LIMA, Jan 26 — The death toll in the explosion of a gas tanker in Lima has risen to 13 after the overnight deaths of five people hospitalised with severe burns, Peru’s Health Ministry said yesterday.Nearly 50 people were injured, many seriously, when a tanker truck carrying 10,000 litres of liquefied gas exploded early Thursday, igniting a major fire that destroyed several houses and vehicles in the capital’s Villa El Salvador district.
Investigators believe the explosion was caused when a fuel hose became detached as the tanker truck passed over a speed bump as it approached an intersection.
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