{"id":7936,"date":"2019-08-10T16:51:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T11:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=7936"},"modified":"2019-08-10T16:52:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T11:52:30","slug":"7936-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/7936","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania Fuel Tanker Blast Kills More than 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 60 people have been killed and 70 injured in a fuel tanker explosion in Tanzania,<\/p>\n<p>According to the local police, people were trying to recover fuel from the vehicle, which had overturned on a major road some time earlier, when the blast happened. Many of those killed were motorbike taxi drivers.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred in Morogoro region, about 200 km (124 miles) west of the port city of Dar es Salaam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have mobilized all the doctors at the Morogoro regional hospital so the wounded can be treated,&#8221; Morogoro governor Stephen Kebw said<\/p>\n<p>.There are fears the death toll could rise. Police said many of the injured had suffered serious burns.<\/p>\n<p>Disasters like this have happened all too frequently in parts of Africa where some people are willing to take huge risks to remove fuel from tankers and pipelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 60 people have been killed and 70 injured in a fuel tanker explosion in Tanzania, According to the local police, people were trying to recover fuel from the vehicle, which had overturned on a major road some time earlier, when the blast happened. Many of those killed were motorbike taxi drivers. The incident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7940,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions\/7940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}