What the records say
- When
- 10 Aug 2019
- Kind
- Explosion
- Coordinates
- 6.80° S, 37.67° E
- Description
- fuel explosion in Tanzania in August 2019
- Deaths
- 71
- Injured
- 70
- Cause
- explosion
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Morogoro tanker explosion: A fuel tanker truck explodes in Morogoro, Tanzania, killing at least 89 people and injuring dozens more”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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