Business owners say they are struggling as people are too scared to come back to Bree Street following the blast which ripped through the CBD this week. | City_Press
Disaster engineers familiar with the bowels of Johannesburg’s CBD say there are scores of old gas and sewer pipes running under Bree Street that exploded on Wednesday afternoon. On Friday, Joburg Metro city manager Floyd Brink said they had come across an old gas pipeline that was still active. Brink said the explosion was being investigated and the gas pipeline had been isolated. One person died and 48 were injured in the blast during rush hour.
Joy Nyathi, a nail technician who worked at a salon in Bree Street, says the owner closed the business because people were too afraid to come there.“My colleagues and I now have to look for an expensive rent-a-chair salon in order to find work. Sabela Mthetwa, who lives with his family in an apartment on Bree Street, says they have had no power supply since the explosion and their water supply was also cut off yesterday morning at 7am.All we’re asking for is that the city council keep us informed of what’s going on.
Floyd Brink, city manager, and Johan la Grange, a civil engineer and consultant of the Johannesburg metro, said on Friday afternoon that earlier in the day the authorities had come across an old gas pipeline that was still active.Brink said: The explosion felt like an earthquake to some people, while others thought a huge bolt of lightning had torn through the earth. Forty-eight people were injured, and one died in what later turned out to have been a gas explosion.
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