What the records say
- When
- 18 Dec 2022
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 35.31° N, 69.04° E
- Description
- At least 20 people are killed when a tank truck overturns, explodes and catches fire in the Salang Tunnel.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2022 Salang Tunnel fire.
2022 Salang Tunnel fire
Disaster in Afghanistan
On 18 December 2022, a tanker truck exploded in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing at least 31 people.
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- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “incendie du tunnel de Salang”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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