![]() Lesufi, the Gauteng premier, tweeted videos of the dusty inside of a shack where at least four gas cylinders can be seen on metal stands. Ntladi said the information authorities had indicated the cylinder that caused the leak was being used by illegal miners to separate gold from dirt and rock. Six police cars, an armored vehicle and one ambulance were parked at the entrance to the Angelo settlement. Investigators were searching through narrow alleys between shacks, cast into darkness by the lack of streetlights - a common situation in the deeply impoverished informal settlements found in and around South Africa’s cities. He said the cannister had emptied out in the leak and teams were able to begin going over an area stretching out 100 meters (yards) from the cylinder to check for more casualties. Ntladi said Wednesday’s deaths were caused by a nitrate gas that leaked from a gas cylinder being kept in a shack. The bodies are still where they are on the ground,” said emergency services spokesperson William Ntladi.īoksburg is the city where 41 people died after a truck carrying liquefied petroleum gas got stuck under a bridge and exploded on Christmas Eve. as emergency services waited for forensic investigators and pathologists to arrive to process the scene. The bodies of the victims remained lying on the ground hours after the leak was reported around 8 p.m. Teams were searching the area looking for other casualties deep into the night. … It’s painful, emotionally draining and tragic,” Lesufi, who visited the scene, was quoted as saying in news reports. But police and Gauteng Province Premier Panyaza Lesufi later said the number of deaths had been confirmed as 16 after a recount of the bodies. JOHANNESBURG (AP) - At least 16 people, including three children, were killed by a leak of a toxic nitrate gas being used by illegal miners to process gold in a settlement of closely packed metal shacks, South African police and local officials said late Wednesday.Įmergency services initially announced that as many as 24 people might be dead in the Angelo settlement in Boksburg, a city on the eastern outskirts of Johannesburg. ![]() By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY (Associated Press) ![]()
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