The Christmas Eve blast tore the roof off the emergency department at the Tambo Memorial Hospital, as well as destroying two houses and several cars and injuring bystanders.
The death toll from a gas tanker explosion in Johannesburg on Saturday has nearly doubled to 15, authorities say, adding that they had arrested the driver and charged him with culpable homicide.Police tracked and arrested the driver in hospitalThe blast tore the roof off the emergency department at the Tambo Memorial Hospital, as well as destroying two houses and several cars and injuring bystanders.
A spokesman for the South African police service for Gauteng province, which includes Johannesburg, said the police had traced and arrested the driver in a hospital where he was being treated late on Sunday. At the time those injured were transported to the nearby Tambo Memorial Hospital, but its efforts to treat the injured were hampered by damage to its roof.
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