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The Boksburg explosion took place on 24 December 2022, when a fuel tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) exploded underneath a railway bridge in Boksburg, in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, [1] with a death toll of 41 people as of 18 January 2023. [2] Nearby infrastructure was damaged by the explosion.
The Planet Hollywood bombing was a terrorist bomb attack that took place at the Planet Hollywood restaurant at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, South Africa. On the night of 25 August 1998 a bomb detonated beneath the footrest of the bar at the restaurant. [4]
13 – An explosion at the Hyde Park Shopping Centre, Johannesburg, injures three people. 19 – A mini-limpet mine explodes within the Castle grounds in Cape Town. 20 – A grenade is thrown at the home of mayor Eddie Makeba in Duncan Village. 23 – An explosion at lunch hour injures 23 people at the Wimpy restaurant on Oxford Street, East ...
The Heidelberg Tavern massacre occurred in Observatory, Cape Town on 30 December 1993. Three Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) terrorists entered the Heidelberg Tavern and opened fire on the crowd, killing four students and the owner of an adjacent restaurant who went outside to investigate the sounds of gunfire. An unexploded bomb (with ...
1 – An explosion outside the Carlton Hotel in Johannesburg injures eight civilians. 4 – A limpet mine explodes outside Checkers supermarket in Silverton, Pretoria and injures 20 civilians. 5 – An explosion at the Mowbray police station in Cape Town slightly injures two policemen.
Cape Town: 8 0 Explosion at a Rheinmetall munition depot. [80] 10 September 2018 Nigeria: Lafia: 35 100+ A gas depot exploded. [81] 13 September 2018 United States: Merrimack Valley, Massachusetts: 1 25+ Merrimack Valley gas explosions: 6 October 2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kongo Central: 39–50 100+ Mbuba road tanker explosion: 13 ...
The 2024 Western Cape wildfires are a series of forest fires in the City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.They led to the loss of 52,501 hectares of land, of which 15,587 hectares were on the CapeNature estate. 129 VIIRS fire alerts were reported between September 11, 2023, and September 16, 2024 (high confidence alerts), with 52 VIIRS fire alerts reported in 2024.
The attack consisted of a car bomb set off outside the Nedbank Square Building, which was rented by the South African Air Force, on Church Street West, Pretoria, at 4:30 pm on 20 May 1983.