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A National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) train caught fire on Monday after its fuel tanks exploded.<\/p>\n
The locomotive was transporting export coal to Zambia when the incident occurred between Kalala and Matetsi sidings in Hwange District.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the NRZ said its crew members escaped unharmed.<\/p>\n
Investigations are underway to ascertain the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n
“Our crews managed to escape unhurt. The incident took place between Kalala Matetsi sidings when the locomotive’s fuel tanks exploded. The…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> A National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) train caught fire on Monday after its fuel tanks exploded. The locomotive was transporting export coal to Zambia when the incident occurred between Kalala and Matetsi sidings in Hwange District. In a statement, the NRZ said its crew members escaped unharmed. Investigations are underway to ascertain the cause of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":196232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,10343,8488,6600,257,773,254,6026,17284,4709,881,4686],"class_list":["post-196231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-catches","tag-coal","tag-fire","tag-news","tag-nrz","tag-south-africa-today","tag-train","tag-transporting","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zimbabwe"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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