What the records say
- When
- 6 Jul 2020
- Kind
- Explosion
- Coordinates
- 10.97° N, 74.37° W
- Description
- Colombian disaster
- Deaths
- 45
- Injured
- 19
Tasajera explosion
2020 explosion in Tasajera, Colombia
The Tasajera explosion took place in the village of Tasajera, municipality of Pueblo Viejo, Colombia on Monday, 6 July 2020. A tanker truck that was transporting gasoline to Barranquilla along a Caribbean road overturned in Tasajera. According to the Magdalena police report, the driver swerved, lost control, and went off the road; the driver was uninjured.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “explosion d'un camion-citerne à Tasajera, dans la municipalité de Pueblo Viejo, tuant 45 personnes et en blessant au moins 19 autres”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En Colombia 45 personas fallecieron y al menos 19 resultaron heridas tras la explosión de un camión cisterna que transportaba combustible en el norte del país”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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