By Rex Mphisa
THE truck carrying highly explosive Liquid Petroleum Gas involved in an accident 40 kilometres outside Beitbridge along the Bulawayo highway is yet to be decanted and management of the danger is being done by well-wishers.
According to sources the empty truck into which the LPG is to be transferred is yet to arrive.
“The situation has remained the some .They are still waiting for the technician and the empty tanker to off load.
Currently we have connected the water pipe to the tanker from our bohole , trying to cool the tanker,” said the sources.
EMA, Police and other stakeholders in Beitbridge are on site.
Unlike earlier reports credited to Zimborders general manager Nqobile Ncube, the accident was reported by a South African Logistics site as an awareness to motorists.
“The information I shared was from a South African Logistics site. It was not from me,” Ncube said in an update.
The tanker accident in which the driver was injured occured on a dirty patch of the Beitbridge – Bulawayo road about 40 kilometers from the border town.
It was not immediately clear what the condition of the driver taken to hospital was.
LPG gas tanks are dangerous and have in the past seen the Beitbridge Border Post closed after some were punctured.
In 1998 the entire Beitbridge town was evacuated when a tanker was punctured on the South African side and people had to be moved to a 10 kolometre radious from the tank.
In a December 2022 gas tanker explosion in Boksburg, South Africa, three Zimbabweans were confirmed to be among the at least 27 people who died.