On Sunday, June 3, a truck with an empty liquid nitrogen tank collided with a silt-loaded truck, leading to an explosion in Suixi country, Zhanjiang, in Guangdong province.
According to GDTV, the trucks crashed on a section of the Yuanshui expressway, catching fire at around 6.30pm. After 15 minutes of flames and smoke, firefighters arrived and evacuated locals before the explosion happened at around 6.55pm. It’s confirmed that there were no casualties in the accident.
Video footage shows the moment when the two trucks explode, sending up a huge plume of smoke and hitting nearby firefighters with gusts of hot air. Watch below (VPN off):
According to Sina News, a Sinopec gas station was just tens of meters away from the site of the explosion. Fortunately, the fire didn’t spread further.
“Even if the [nitrogen tank of the] truck was empty, there was still gas,” a firefighter surnamed Liang told the Beijing News. “The explosion blew down everything around it, including billboards.”
[Images via Zhanjiang Public Security Weibo, The Beijing News]
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