Afrigather On Saturday, 24 December 2022, within the night following an explosion of a gasoline tanker in Boksburg, the police traced and arrested the motive force of the tanker at a non-public hospital the place he had been receiving medical therapy for minor accidents.
The 32-year-old suspect has been charged with a number of counts of culpable murder, negligent inflicting of an explosion leading to loss of life [Act 26 of 1956, Section 27 (2)] and malicious injury to property.
Earlier within the day at 06:15, the South African Police Service’s numerous specialised items in addition to officers from the Highway Visitors Administration Company (RTMC) Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police, Gauteng Emergency Companies (EMS), Ekurhuleni Emergency Administration Companies, Provincial Division of Cooperative Governance and Conventional Affairs’, Catastrophe Administration, Response and Rescue personnel, and specialised tools have been dispatched to Boksburg’s Railway Bridge on the Hospital Highway following an explosion.
Preliminary investigations discovered that the loaded gasoline tanker bought caught making an attempt to drive by a low bridge and the affect resulted in an explosion. The gasoline tanker was allegedly driving from Richard’s Bay en path to Botswana.
The driving force in addition to a number of individuals who sustained accidents together with eight firefighters have been taken to varied hospitals for medical therapy. So far, 15 persons are reported to have sustained deadly accidents together with a 10-year-old boy.
The complete injury to infrastructure in addition to personal property can be communicated in the end. The incident scene continues to be being cleared.
The suspect will seem earlier than the Boksburg Magistrates Courtroom on 28 December 2022.
