{"id":555,"date":"2026-10-06T15:48:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=555"},"modified":"2026-10-06T15:48:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:48:50","slug":"fuel-tanker-explodes-along-salgaa-nakuru-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=555","title":{"rendered":"FUEL TANKER EXPLODES ALONG SALGAA-NAKURU HIGHWAY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fuel tanker exploded shortly after midnight along the Salgaa-Nakuru section of the Nakuru-Eldoret Highway, causing authorities to close part of the busy highway.<br>The Kenya Red Cross said its emergency team responded to the incident and attended to two casualties. A multi-agency team involving emergency responders worked to contain the fire and secure the area.<br>Motorists were advised to avoid the affected section of the highway and use alternative routes while emergency teams dealt with the incident. Authorities had not immediately established the cause of the explosion, while investigations and response operations continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"984\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20261006-183018_ChatGPT-1-984x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20261006-183018_ChatGPT-1-984x1024.jpg 984w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20261006-183018_ChatGPT-1-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20261006-183018_ChatGPT-1-768x799.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20261006-183018_ChatGPT-1.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 984px) 100vw, 984px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"999\" src=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20261006-183029_ChatGPT-1024x999.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20261006-183029_ChatGPT-1024x999.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20261006-183029_ChatGPT-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20261006-183029_ChatGPT-768x750.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20261006-183029_ChatGPT.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fuel tanker exploded shortly after midnight along the Salgaa-Nakuru section of the Nakuru-Eldoret Highway, causing authorities to close part of the busy highway.The Kenya Red Cross said its emergency team responded to the incident and attended to two casualties. A multi-agency team involving emergency responders worked to contain the fire and secure the area.Motorists [&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-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","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=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}