Boksburg gas tanker explosion death toll rises to 15 including three Tambo Memorial hospital staff: The death toll from Saturday's gas tanker explosion in Boksburg on Johannesburg's East Rand has risen to 15.
Health minister Joe Phaahla said 37 people, including 24 patients and 13 staff members who were in the nearby Tambo Memorial hospital’s casualty ward at the time of the explosion, sustained severe burn wounds and were diverted to neighbouring hospitals.
“We send our deepest condolences to the families that lost their loved ones. We wish a speedy recovery to those that are recuperating in the hospital. “No new patients have been admitted since then,” Phaahla said, adding that the facility is not taking patients but sending them to nearby facilities.
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