{"id":62028,"date":"2020-02-14T15:25:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T07:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=62028"},"modified":"2020-02-14T15:25:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T07:25:59","slug":"death-toll-in-peru-tanker-explosion-rises-to-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=62028","title":{"rendered":"Death toll in Peru tanker explosion rises to 30"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1-101.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1-101.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LIMA, Feb 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The death toll from the explosion of a gas<br>tanker in Lima last month has risen to 30, Peru\u2019s ministry of health said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two women and a man were the most recent to succumb to burns from a<br>fireball that occurred when the tanker truck carrying 10,000 liters of liquefied gas exploded on Jan 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially only two people were killed and 50 injured, but the death toll<br>has continued to rise due to the severity of their burns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigators believed the explosion was caused when a fuel hose became<br>detached as the truck passed over a speed bump. It ignited a major fire that<br>destroyed several houses and vehicles in the capital\u2019s Villa El Salvador<br>district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur deepest condolences to the relatives,\u201d Defense Minister Walter Martos<br>said Thursday, pledging to visit all of the dozen still-hospitalized victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martos said reconstruction was set to begin Monday and said the displaced<br>might be relocated to other houses nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The public prosecutor has accused tanker driver Luis Guzman, 74, of<br>culpable homicide, though investigations are ongoing. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIMA, Feb 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The death toll from the explosion of a gastanker in Lima last month has risen to 30, Peru\u2019s ministry of health said. Two women and a man were the most recent to succumb to burns from afireball that occurred when the tanker truck carrying 10,000 liters of liquefied gas exploded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62028"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}