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12 dead in Zimbabwe fuel tanker horror crash
Twelve people died instantly yesterday morning when a fuel tanker collided with two other vehicles near the Sebakwe River on the Harare–Bulawayo Highway in Kwekwe, Midlands Province. The tragic acci...Published: 28 May 2025 at 10:55hrs | 430 | by Staff reporter
4 petrol tankers, bus reduced to shells
FOUR petrol tankers and a bus were reduced to shells at a garage in the Willowvale area of Harare after they caught fire while suspected fuel dealers were siphoning fuel from one of the tankers....Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 04:51hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimra ordered to surrender 100 000 litres of seized fuel
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has been ordered to surrender over 100 000 litres of petrol and trucks seized from a local trucking company after it emerged this was unlawfully done.Thi...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:15hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Petrol supplies return to normal
Heavy pumping from Beira to Feruka and on to Msasa has already seen 28 million litres of petrol arrive in Zimbabwe and being distributed rapidly ensuring most service stations were able to resume petr...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 06:57hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo teen suffocates inside fuel tanker
A 19-YEAR-OLD from Pumula South in Bulawayo suffocated while his cousin was hospitalised after they went into a fuel tank to clean it in Kelvin North industrial site on Saturday.Onesisa ...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:24hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean fuel shortages exposes ED's softness
If there is a year which every person wishes it goes and never to be remembered again is 2017. Zimbabwe has and is still suffering unprecedented fuel shortages. Queues of more than five miles had seiz...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 00:41hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Fuel truck blaze kills 'nine' in Nigeria
A petrol tanker has caught fire in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, killing at least nine people, officials say.More than 50 vehicles, including five buses, were set ablaze after the truck ...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 10:45hrs | 3 | by BBC
Villagers ignore trapped driver's cries for help, Looting at accident scene
VILLAGERS from Mufusire area in Headlands did the unthinkable last Saturday morning when they ignored a truck driver crying for help while trapped in an accident wreckage and went on to loot foodstuff...Published: 08 Sep 2017 at 07:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mahewu looted while truck driver is stuck after an accident
While a Bravo Transport driver was battling to come out of the wreckage of a haulage truck after being involved in an accident yesterday morning, passersby were busy looting mahewu, a traditional beve...Published: 21 Jun 2015 at 10:33hrs | 1 | by Robin Muchetu
Two Zimbabwean drivers die after petrol tanker - Confirmed explosion
Four people were killed and ten were injured in a huge fire that occurred Monday night on the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, according to a report obtained Tuesday fr...Published: 26 Nov 2014 at 06:37hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
'Two Zimbabweans feared dead' - WhatsApp update
Border of Zambia and Congo.. 2 Zimbabwean drivers are feared dead at Kasumbalesa border after a fire broke out leading to the explosion of fuel laden tankers. 14 have been confirmed dead...Published: 26 Nov 2014 at 10:42hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
Petrol tanker brakes failed - driver
The driver of the petrol tanker told ER24 paramedics that his brakes failed, causing him to collide with an estimated 47 vehicles Two people were killed and about 54 injured when a petrol tanker c...Published: 15 Oct 2014 at 22:38hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Multi-vehicle accident in Alberton, two confirmed dead
Johannesburg - Two people have been confirmed dead following a multi-vehicle accident on the N12 East near Voortrekker Road in Alberton on Tuesday morning, Ekurhuleni emergency services said....Published: 14 Oct 2014 at 08:40hrs | 3 | by Sapa
Truck driver dies in 5,000l petrol tank
A MAN died yesterday after spending two hours inside a 5,000-litre petrol tank.Boyde Ndlovu, 26, a petrol tanker driver, is believed to have jumped into the tank to scoop up the remaining fuel...Published: 04 Apr 2014 at 06:13hrs | 6 | by Angeline Mpofu
Harare inferno claims more lives
The death toll from the Sunningdale Petrol Tanker Disaster has now reached 11 after 3 more people died in hospital over the weekend while the 4th victim died early this Monday morning.Police ...Published: 21 Jun 2011 at 04:11hrs | 1 | by Moyo Roy
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