{"id":222990,"date":"2026-02-06T11:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-panic-as-gas-cylinders-explode-at-donholm-depot-fire-rages\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:34:17","slug":"kenya-panic-as-gas-cylinders-explode-at-donholm-depot-fire-rages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-panic-as-gas-cylinders-explode-at-donholm-depot-fire-rages\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Panic As Gas Cylinders Explode At Donholm Depot, Fire Rages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 There was panic in Donholm estate on Friday morning when gas cylinders exploded at a local depot, causing a massive fire that shook the densely populated neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Residents were jolted awake by loud blasts near a popular eatery adjacent to the gas depot. Witnesses say the explosion was likely triggered by a leaking full gas cylinder, which ignited a raging fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Several cylinders and debris were hurled into the air, shattering windows, damaging vehicles, and sending terrified&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602060098.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 There was panic in Donholm estate on Friday morning when gas cylinders exploded at a local depot, causing a massive fire that shook the densely populated neighborhood. Residents were jolted awake by loud blasts near a popular eatery adjacent to the gas depot. Witnesses say the explosion was likely triggered by a leaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":222991,"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":[250],"tags":[258,256,34052,21453,20704,41249,6600,7168,4688,430,257,14038,8120,254],"class_list":["post-222990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cylinders","tag-depot","tag-donholm","tag-explode","tag-fire","tag-gas","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-panic","tag-rages","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/222990","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}