{"id":24,"date":"2026-09-19T17:33:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=24"},"modified":"2026-09-19T17:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:36:29","slug":"eldoret-tanker-explosion-kills-four-injures-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"ELDORET TANKER EXPLOSION KILLS FOUR, INJURES 22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four people have died and at least 22 others sustained serious burns following a fuel tanker explosion along the Eldoret-Webuye highway.<br>The incident happened at Kipkaren village after a fuel tanker collided with a saloon car and spilled petrol onto the road. People who rushed to the scene to collect the spilled fuel were caught by the flames when the petrol ignited.<br>Several survivors were taken to Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret and Webuye Sub-County Hospital for treatment. Hospital officials said some of the victims required intensive care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot_20260919_202503-1024x674.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot_20260919_202503-1024x674.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot_20260919_202503-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot_20260919_202503-767x505.jpg 767w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot_20260919_202503.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four people have died and at least 22 others sustained serious burns following a fuel tanker explosion along the Eldoret-Webuye highway.The incident happened at Kipkaren village after a fuel tanker collided with a saloon car and spilled petrol onto the road. People who rushed to the scene to collect the spilled fuel were caught by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}