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- Title
Mukuru-Sinai fuel spill and fire disaster, September 2011.
- Abstract
On 12 September 2011, a major fire tore through the Mukuru-Sinai slum of Nairobi, Kenya, resulting in the deaths of approximately 120 people and many more receiving severe burn injuries. International media initially reported that an explosion originating in a pipeline operated by the Kenyan Pipeline Company caused the fire. A joint investigation team led by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) determined that the actual cause was a fuel spill that resulted in a large amount of unleaded petrol entering the storm water drainage system and igniting as it flowed through an open ditch in Mukuru-Sinai. The team also established that there was clear evidence of other uncontrolled industrial effluents being released into the storm water drainage system and observed scenarios suggesting that the likelihood of similar accidents occurring in the future was high.
- Subjects
KENYA; FIRES; EXPLOSIONS; GASOLINE pipelines; DRAINAGE
- Publication
Loss Prevention Bulletin, 2013, Issue 232, p14
- ISSN
0260-9576
- Publication type
Article